But there are times when you have unloaded recycle bin or shift-deleted (permanently deleted) a file. However, if you simply delete a file, it isn’t deleted but is placed in recycle bin, which is a direct en-route to retrieve any file. You happen to delete a file for various reasons such as, when you want to recover memory space on your hard drive or the file seems irrelevant to you or alike. Do files on your system ever get permanently deleted?