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If I delete files from the "My Files" folder on a Samsung Galaxy S8, are the files permanently deleted?? My phone's internal memory says it is low and that I need to delete files from my files folder.

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"My files" is a built-in file manager and explorer. Any files deleted using that are permanently deleted

As pointed out in comments by Arctiic, it appears some files get restored even after deletion. I wasn't aware of this

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  • Thank you beeshyams.
    – Carmig82
    Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 16:18
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    @beeshyams Apologies for the confusion, I wasn't referring to the restore function (ADB or settings toggle), but rather just the more ubiquitous usage of the term. I don't actually know how the restoration is actioned, only that certain files, e.g. for my Samsung Note 8, /SD Card/Samsung/Music/Over_the_Horizon.mp3 will appear again on it's own after deleting it. My guess is it's a symlink of some sort or the file is on some sort of system whitelist somewheie, thus it reappears regardless of user interventions.
    – Arctiic
    Commented Feb 29, 2020 at 4:30
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    @Arctiic the mentioned .mp3 file is Samsung's ringtone. It must be in /system/media or some other read-only filesystem, simply copied to external storage on reboot. Deleted files are never restored this way.
    – Irfan Latif
    Commented Feb 29, 2020 at 10:27

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