With records management, when I select the 'destroy' action at the end of the lifecycle for a records, what happens to the file content that is destroyed?
I'm assuming that just a file system delete of the file occurs, something like the erasure of a pointer to a record (eg the file name and directory path) that tells the operating system where a particular piece of data is held on the medium. The actual data objects are gradually overwritten in time when new data and files are added to the system.
Is that right? Has the data really been overwritten after a 'destroy' or is there still some chance that the data from the file might be retrievable?