Operator and household · Explanation

Why nothing is deleted outright#

A sync mistake, a tap in the wrong place, or a tablet that thinks a file was deleted elsewhere: notebooks are easy to lose and slow to make again. So in Inkhold a delete is a step towards removal, never the removal itself.

Three layers of keeping#

• The recycle bin. Whatever is deleted, on the tablet or in the browser, waits there for 30 days (the household can change it) and goes back where it was when restored, on the tablet too.
• Version history. Each time a notebook changes, the version before is kept: 5 per file unless the household changes it. Restoring an old version keeps the one it replaces, so a restore can be undone too.
• Backups. Snapshots of everything, on another disk.

Where a file goes when it is deleted, and where a page goes when it is changed:

When something is really removed#

Only when a person or a rule says so, and always after a clear warning:

• Delete permanently, or Empty bin, in the recycle bin.
• The bin’s window running out.
• History’s limits: past its number of versions, or past the household’s total for versions, the oldest versions of whoever is saving go first.
• An administrator deleting an account, after typing its address.

Kept versions and the bin count against their owner’s allotment: keeping has a cost, and it is shown.