Harvey I knew back from DOS/WIN days that "emptying" the trash simply moves it out of the "garbage can" icon and deep into the FAT i.e., it lives forever but the bytes are recouped. (so in Linux they are sunk deep into the Ext4 layer?)
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, I thought, followed the same principles as physically emptying the trash but it doesn't. It disappears that data and physically removes it.
So this is the first time in my Linux education that the GUI can do something the terminal can't do (empty trash, remove to drive layer)...and the terminal can do something the UI cannot do: disappear a physical file.
Far out. Thanks for the elaboration, Harvey.