The term used to describe when new information replaces old information or data is

In data processing, several terms describe what can happen to stored data, and each one has a precise technical meaning.

When new data is saved into a location that already holds older data, the new data replaces the old data completely at that same storage location. This action, where new information takes the place of existing information, is called overwrite. It happens, for example, when a file is saved again under the same name and the previous version is replaced by the updated content.

This is different from the other terms. File loss refers to data becoming inaccessible or lost, usually accidentally, not to a deliberate replacement. Delete means removing data so that nothing remains in that space. Re-write is not the standard technical term used in this context; the recognised term for replacing old data with new data in the same storage location is overwrite.

Whenever a question describes new data taking the place of old data at the same location, the keyword to associate with it is overwrite, not simply delete, since deletion leaves no replacement data behind.