Difference between Pending deletion and the macOS Trash

	Pending deletion (Merceq)	macOS Trash
What does it hold?	A list of rejected clips you’ve set aside to delete.	The video files themselves.
Where is the video file?	On the disk, in its original location.	In that disk’s own Trash.
Does it free up space?	No.	When you empty the Trash.
How do you restore it?	From the Pending deletion window in Merceq.	In Finder, if you haven’t emptied the Trash.

The Pending deletion window says: “Only clips Merceq moved here. Your Finder Trash isn’t touched.”

Culling isn’t deleting. A clip you reject with R goes to the Rejected group; it stays in the library and on disk. The Reject {N} clips button in the Quick filters wing also only sends clips to Rejected (see Chapter 3: Cull your clips and organise them into folders).

“Trash” on screen always means the macOS Trash. Pending deletion is the name of Merceq’s own list.