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Delete Undelete files?
Posted: 20 May 2006, 18:52
by schroeder
Hi,
is there any way to permanently delete the files shown under Undelete, i.e. make them NOT recoverable?
schroeder
Posted: 20 May 2006, 19:12
by Jan Rysavy
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.
Posted: 20 May 2006, 19:15
by schroeder
Thanks Jan!
But does that also clear all the existing undelete history?
schroeder
Posted: 20 May 2006, 19:24
by Jan Rysavy
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...
Posted: 20 May 2006, 19:29
by Guest
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
Posted: 20 May 2006, 19:43
by Jan Rysavy
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
Posted: 23 May 2006, 17:38
by schroeder
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
Posted: 23 May 2006, 18:15
by Mem
schröder: Hey, stop this reverse engineering, now we know how shredding in SS works! (by creating ZZZ... folder and filling with small files?)
Posted: 24 May 2006, 13:05
by Jan Rysavy
The ZZZZZZ.ZZZ directory is "debris" from MFT cleaning algorithm. It is OK...