Almost any object can be deleted by either dropping it on the shredder or by selecting Delete... from the object's context menu. As in previous versions of OS/2, files and directories can be deleted from a command line.
To help the user recover from accidentally deleting files from a command prompt, OS/2 can set up a special Delete directory on each logical drive. Each deleted file will be put into this directory until a user-specified size is reached. Only then will the files really be deleted from the disk. This will be done in a FIFO (First In, First Out) sequence.
Files can be recovered easily if they are still in the DELETE directory by just copying them back to where they were. If a file is already erased from the DELETE directory it may still be recoverable with the UNDELETE command.