Delete Undelete files?

schroeder · Post by **schroeder** » 20 May 2006, 18:52

Hi,

is there any way to permanently delete the files shown under Undelete, i.e. make them NOT recoverable?

schroeder

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 20 May 2006, 19:12

Use the Plugins > Encrypt & Decrypt > Shred Files command instead of deleting such sensitive files. This command will overwrite files content with random patterns to ensure it cannot be recovered.

schroeder · Post by **schroeder** » 20 May 2006, 19:15

Thanks Jan!

But does that also clear all the existing undelete history?

schroeder

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 20 May 2006, 19:24

It is not possible to shred particular (already) deleted file. Btw, interesting idea for the Undelete plugin

There is command Plugins > Encrypt & Decrypt > Clean Disk Free Space which will shred all free space on given partition. Unfortunately it takes same time...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 20 May 2006, 19:29

Jan Rysavy wrote:It is not possible to shred particular (already) deleted file. Btw, interesting idea for the Undelete plugin

I knoooooow!

Jan Rysavy wrote: There is command Plugins > Encrypt & Decrypt > Clean Disk Free Space which will shred all free space on given partition. Unfortunately it takes same time...

Ah! Thats probably what I need. Thanks!

And BTW, what a great piece of software you guys put together. Two thumbs up!

One more question though about the memory consumption of SS. If I minimize the program to the task bar the memory footprint goes down to 900K (awesome!

) but then after about 20 seconds it goes up to about 2.5 MB. Why is that?

Thanks,
schroeder

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 20 May 2006, 19:43

Anonymous wrote:One more question though about the memory consumption of SS. If I minimize the program to the task bar the memory footprint goes down to 900K (awesome! ) but then after about 20 seconds it goes up to about 2.5 MB. Why is that?

Please post this question (copy&paste) as separate thread, for easier navigation. Specify your OS version. It looks interesting

schroeder · Post by **schroeder** » 23 May 2006, 17:38

Jan Rysavy wrote:It is not possible to shred particular (already) deleted file. Btw, interesting idea for the Undelete plugin

There is command Plugins > Encrypt & Decrypt > Clean Disk Free Space which will shred all free space on given partition. Unfortunately it takes same time...

Works like a charm. Thanks.

One more thing: when I call the Undelete view after cleaning the free space a folder called ZZZZZZ.ZZZ with about 5000 0-byte files with funky (random) filenames remains. What's that one for?

schroeder

Mem · Post by **Mem** » 23 May 2006, 18:15

schröder: Hey, stop this reverse engineering, now we know how shredding in SS works! (by creating ZZZ... folder and filling with small files?)

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 24 May 2006, 13:05

The ZZZZZZ.ZZZ directory is "debris" from MFT cleaning algorithm. It is OK...