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Purge

Last Updated June 23, 2021 1:07 pm

To systematically and permanently remove old and unneeded data. The term purge is stronger than delete. It is often possible to regain deleted objects by undeletingthem, but purged objects are gone forever.

Also see Are Deleted Files Completely Erased? in the Did You Know . . . ? section of Webopedia.

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