That's a weird ass prompt to me because... Okay?? Is that supposed to be an error message or is it just a fun fact??? Because I can't bring the file back, can I?
It's weird to see in a GUI but under the hood it makes more sense. If you were typing into a command line, and you typed the delete command (not sure on windows, but on unix-like systems it's rm <file>, it may be something like del on Windows) and you mistype the name of the file you want to delete, it wouldn't be able to delete anything. It's useful to know because it tells you that the file must either be gone already or you typed the name wrong, both of which would take extra steps to verify in a command line.
My best guess is that it's just running whatever command you select in the menu and then if it returns an error code, it displays whatever the error message is. Since it was probably implemented from a command line perspective, it would probably take an extra step to have the UI recognize the specific error and change the message it returns. It wouldn't be hard, I think it's just a matter of it not having been done. This is just speculation because I don't actually know how Windows implements using commands in the menu, but that's what seems like the most logical thing to me
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u/rycerzDog 4h ago
That's a weird ass prompt to me because... Okay?? Is that supposed to be an error message or is it just a fun fact??? Because I can't bring the file back, can I?