Almost deleted the user folder. Is it possible to lose files?

Question

Windows

Accidentally clicked over the user folder (C: Users: "Username") to delete. The deletion started, but I immediately pressed X.
Is it possible that I lost some files?

Answer 1

Not everything is clear there.
First, it depends on the volume of the removed. EMNIP, the maximum volume of the basket is 10% of the size of this section. If what is being deleted fits into this size, then the deletion occurs in the trash. And it is very easy to restore deleted items from the trash. So, literally, open the trash, click "Restore" in the folder or file menu, and it comes back. Actually, the basket was created for this. If what is being deleted exceeds the size of the trash, then the OS raises the question: "Delete permanently?"
Secondly,as you wrote in the question, depends on the time. The OS must first find out if the trash can's capacity will be exceeded (in order to decide how to delete - permanently or permanently), and for this it is necessary to measure the volume of what is being deleted. The message "The volume is being estimated..." is displayed on the screen, and it takes quite a long time - a few seconds, and sometimes up to a minute, if the deleted file is a lot of small files. And only then the deletion processing itself begins. So if you realized it quickly, then nothing really could have had time to leave.

Answer 2

Usually there are a lot of files and subfolders in the user folder (here you have more than 30 gigs - this is probably more than a hundred thousand files). Therefore, it is very likely that you managed to press cancel while all this heap of files was still being scanned, and not deleted. But in the general case, with such actions, of course, some of the files can be deleted.

Answer 3

Are we talking about some kind of corporate (thick client) PC with several OZs or a home PC?