How a thirty-day recovery window moves the threshold for discarding personal files
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities asks 214 adults to clear a simulated personal drive of 180 files under a storage quota, with deletion either permanent or recoverable for thirty days. Both arms met the quota, but with a recovery window the anticipated-need rating at which a file was as likely deleted as kept rose from 2.9 to 4.6 on a seven-point scale, the shift concentrated in own drafts and photographs, and the trash went on to serve 26% of day-7 and 34% of day-21 retrievals.
| Authors | Runa Adegoke , Hedvig Anyanwu |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.gmcvn6 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_gmcvn6,
author = {Runa Adegoke and Hedvig Anyanwu},
title = {Deleted, For Now: How a thirty-day recovery window moves the threshold for discarding personal files},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.gmcvn6},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-quota-constrained-gmcvn6/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}