The Recycler

  The Recycler is part of the Dock. The bottom icon on the Dock is always the Recycler.
  The icon on the Dock can change based on the state of the Recycler. It can indicate that there are no files in the Recycler (it is empty) or that there are files in it.

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  There are various ways to place a file in the Recycler.
  The first one is to drag the file towards the Recycler icon on the Dock and as soon as the pointer turns green release the mouse button. 

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  Another way is to select the file and press ALT-d (or the Backspace key) on your keyboard.
  And the last version is by using the File menu entry Move to Recycler. If the option on the menu is greyed out, you forgot to select the file.
  Before the action is performed a panel will popup to ask for you confirmation.
  When you started with an empty Recycler icon, you will after using one of the above options on e.g. the Test_copy.txt file see the icon of the Recycler change.
  Double clicking on the Recycler icon in the Dock opens a viewer on the .Trash folder. 

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  Dragging the file back to a folder on the system removes it from the recycler.
  The downside of the Recycler is that it is a temporary store for files or folders that need to be thrown away. By placing items in the Recycler they are still part of the filesystem and thus take up space. So placing files in the recycler, does not create more disk space on your system.
  To free the diskspace occupied by the items in the Recycler you must empty the Recycler. Select from the File menu entry the Empty Recycler command and the files will be removed from your system.

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