I've accidentally deleted a couple of .tex and .pdf files. The files were stored under C:\Users\Name\Desktop\notes on my laptop's SSD. It seems like this happened about a month ago or less.
I've since added and removed files on Desktop, and it's only now that I noticed they were deleted. I'm trying to figure out how NTFS might have dealt with them and whether it's viable to try to recover them (using software like R-Studio).
In particular, I'm wondering the following: if I delete files and write new files on Desktop, does that automatically mean that the previous files will be overwritten by the new files? In other words, will the new files take their "place"?
If this is the case, I don't see any way to recover my files. If it isn't, where does NTFS store new files in such a situation - does it simply insert them in the first free block of memory?