[Permanently Delete Recovered files]

I don't know what you guys are doing. In all the years I have run Recuva it has never shown or found a file that was not already deleted.

 

Hank, all those file names are irritating, but it's how Windows works. On a hard drive you can never actually 'clean' anything or go back to a previous state, only keep writing more and more stuff on top of what's already there. If you want a day's amusement seeing lots of file names try a deep scan.

 

oh no, no more trash and dust...!

 

so those days in MS-DOS era are gone for good, when real cleaning was possible... (?)

 

[Deleting file records]

Maybe I misspoke about the directory. I was hoping for something like what Eraser 5.85 does -- that is to overwrite the filename with ZZZZZs and change the path to C:\?\.

 

Seems like a good idea to me.

well, this has been quite an item... is it really the only way to clean trash from MFT to format the disk; and does that even do the job...I know, cleaning is not the main point in Recuva, but finding something important to recover from loads of cryptic names is quite a job...

 

[Recuva doesn't delete the files that finds]

Pluto, your 40k files listed are deleted, Recuva is finding the file names from (presumably) the Master File Table. Recuva can overwrite these deleted files if you wish, but there's no need unless you have some specifically sensitive filenames in your list. You can't - with Recuva - alter the filenames though.

 

It has been requested before that Recuva remove the file names from the MFT, but this may be a step too far. Even if it did so the deleted files would still be in the same place, it's just that the files found list would be shorter. To be honest I wouldn't worry about them.

 

okay, this is clear. but my opinion is, that it is much easier to find and recover files when there are only few to find rather 10000... it is philosofic, but if I delete things, I don't need their nametags anymore...why would I ???

[Permanently Delete Recovered files]

well, this delete does not work - after deleting files and rescanning, they are still there. it would be so nice to clean that trash away for good. basicly, quick cleaning of "FAT" would be the best...

 

(?)

[Cleaning and deleting]

Hey, and thanks for this usefull program. With cclean this makes a handy pair. some good suggestions dealing deleting files has been already made, here some more:

 

cleaning the scan-list easy.

 

since the scan finds on my c-drive about 4000 files to "recover" (good and poor, all shapes and sizes...) and I gladly would like to get rid of them once and for all, so please add a "knop" to clean the list (= delete the files for good), if it is possible.

It should have 2 levels:

1:st just cleans the FAT (file alloc. table) (faster, for not-so-confidential data), and only if you want,

2:ly "clean" free disk space by overwriting it with "something nice" (takes much more time).

 

after that it would be a real pleasure to find those important files to recover in the future. (needs this cleaning on regulas basis, of course)

 

of course, there should be "select all", and single ticks too.

 

with best regards, hankala