Files & File Systems: Crash Course Computer Science #20 7/12/2017 | 11m 42sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Today we’re going to look at how our computers read and interpret computer files.

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When you delete a file, all you’ve really done is tell the computer that it can reuse the clusters assigned to that file for something new.