Apple Macintosh LC - Manual (Page 53)

You have retrieved the Friday Ad from the Trash and returned it to the Unsent
Letters folder.
6. Close the Trash window by clicking its close box.
What's Going on Here?
In the last exercises you practiced a few important skills: discarding items
you no longer need, emptying the Trash, and retrieving items from the Trash.
Discarding items
When you drag an item to the Trash, you tell the computer that you no longer
want to keep that item on your disk. The computer stores the item in the
Trash temporarily, to give you a chance to change your mind. While the item
is stored in the Trash, the Trash icon bulges to show you the item is still
there.
Emptying the Trash
The discarded item will remain in the Trash until one of these things
happens: the computer needs the disk space occupied by the discarded item for
some other work, you shut down or restart your computer, or you choose Empty
Trash from the Special menu. When one of these things happens, the computer
permanently removes the discarded items from the disk, and the Trash icon
returns to normal to show that it is empty. After the Trash is emptied, the
disk space that was previously used to store the discarded item is freed up
to be used by new documents or programs.
If you find yourself running out of room on a disk, throw away items you no
longer need, and choose Empty Trash from the Special menu to free up space on
your disk.
Retrieving discarded items
You can get back an item that you have dragged into the Trash as long as the
Trash has not been emptied since you dragged the item there. The bulging
Trash icon tells you your discarded item is still retrievable. If you do
decide you want an item back, act quickly. If you continue working you may
cause the computer to empty the Trash automatically in order to free disk
space it needs for some operation. To recover an item, you simply open the
Trash icon and drag the desired icon out of the Trash.
Next steps
This is the end of Chapter 7. The next page reviews what you have learned in
this chapter. Look over the review to reinforce what you have learned. If
you discover that you are unsure of any of the items covered, go back through
the pages in this chapter that discuss those items.
When you have done that, you can take a rest or continue with the next
chapter to learn about printing with a Macintosh computer.
Chapter 7 Review
This is a review of the skills taught in this chapter. If you are unsure of
any of the skills listed here, go to the page given at the right to review
those skills.