Augeas
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Unfortunately I have no answer Kevin. It may be something to do with the sector size. I have read about the tendency in disk design to move from 512k to 4096k sectors, so you may be a bit of a pioneer.
I can only suggest that you try another recovery product to get you moving on this. The devs do read the forum and occasionally contact users with particular problems.
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Right click anywhere in the two Cookies panels and select 'Intelligent Scan'.
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Not enough info for us sad cases, Mr Ron.
Can you or Mtntravel say:
On a non-system drive, is every file deleted, so you have to do a format to bring the drive/partition back to life?
On a system drive, what files are deleted, or left if that's easier? I can't grasp how that's done - is everything in Docs and Settings for all user profiles removed, or is it more sophisticated than that?
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I have already posted on this subject, but somehow or another it disappeared---where did it go?
It's still there.
You could try looking at what the two pc's are deleting, and check or adjust the settings. Also you might have different settings on the browsers, or be using different browsers on the two boxes.
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I can't comment on Piriform's business and user support, as I've no experience of it. I would say though that your company (and your career) is taking a chance on using a free unsupported product in its business. Support appears to be ?19.95 a pc, so it could be expensive for many pc's. Have you tried this contact point http://www.piriform.com/contact-sales ?
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Licences for business... http://www.piriform.com/business/support-license/defraggler
and private... http://www.piriform.com/about/support-license/defraggler
Those two seem to apply to businesses and customers users taking up paid support, as far as I can tell. For free unsupported use you could always run the first part of an install and see what the licence agreement says there.
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What colour are you seeing? It's always been black on white for me, just like this post. Perhaps you have some Windows setting that is enhancing your viewing pleasure.
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The documentation for this feature says that checking '...Entire Drive will erase all of the files on the drive. WARNING, this means the whole of the drive will be erased.' Make of that what you will.
As this is a new feature the mechanics of this are not fully understood. Obviously an application running under Windows can't wipe the drive it's running on. Possibly it can do this on a non-system non-CC partition or drive. If you're fully confident that you can rebuild from scratch then you could try Drive Wiper and report back afterwards.
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Secure delete renames files anyway, so I can't see any user reason why recycler files aren't renamed. The reason why is possibly technical. Files sent to the recycler are renamed by Windows, and I guess that Explorer extracts the real file names when showing the recycler list of contents. To rename these files you would have to 'undelete' them to some temp folder, rename and overwrite them, then delete them. Or something like that. (As I've never used this facility I'm taking it on trust that secure delete of the recycler contents doesn't rename?)
I think we should all post on porn sites asking them to rename their delectable jpegs to something more anonymous. Well, not me personally, of course.
Login, I live a half-mile away from a former cold-war underground seat of government, and on the other side of town is a missile rocket manufacturubg site. Ah, it's lovely living in the countryside. I bet there's still a few IBCM's pointing in this direction. I wonder if anyone around here has a launch key or two? If so, rename it!
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Mr Don, I've removed what could be very destructive advice to the o/p. As far as we can tell he is running wfs. What you have advised would remove all his live data at the very least, which he probably doesn't want. You are an established member with high technical competence so please be careful to establish the user's requirements before recommending this method.
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Can your pc see the flash drive? If not then you could try formatting it, prefereably to the same file system as before, and see if Recuva recognises it. If yes, run a scan with the option Scan for Non-Deleted Files checked.
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Windows Explorer does a pretty good job showing data files and their sizes. Duplicated files has been discussed many times on the forum, there seems to be as many against as for.
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Can't remember, Aethec, but I don't think so. It was the slim version, which I've used for several years now. Actually I've just installed 3.0 slim on the spouse's laptop, and there was the usual five boxes to uncheck. No mention of Chrome, Google or owt at all. No, I don't have Chrome installed on any box.
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Hmmm. I don't have one of those...
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If you use the Wizard you will see the results in one panel. There will be a box saying 'Switch to Advanced Mode' at the top right. Click on this to go to Advanced Mode.
If your results are shown in two panels and you have an 'Options' button at the top right you're in Advanced Mode.
To go back to the Wizard press Options, Run Wizard.
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If you're in advanced mode, clear whatever's in the Path/Filename box. If there are still some ignored files then go into Options/Actions and make sure the top three boxes are ticked.
Saving 25,000 files is a little ambitious, isn't it? Have you considered being a little more selective?
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i don't know where else to post my question...
I should try some of the forums where nCleaner is discussed. This is not really the place to problem solve a competitor product.
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Cheers, Aethec, it was the way I phrased it.
I'm wondering if this is a step too far, or at least a step into the unknown. We have no idea what data is removed, is it intended to purge the entire disk, or leave just the O/S behind, or to remove user data and leave applications, or what? A Windows application hasn't a cat in a dog's home chance of achieving any of those. There nothing in the documentation.
CC is a safe cleaner (enthusiastic registry cleaning apart) with a enviable reputation which has introduced a disk-killer option.
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No offence taken at all chaps, I was merely trying to surmise what some users would do, and I'm sure do do. I have never run WFS on my hd, and probably never will.
One thing that I have missed though, and seems to have slipped through the announcements, is that the new wipe tool will wipe all data as well as free space. So that may be the reason why the two ways of accessing wfs remain. This is such a killer option to let loose that the warning message (as here http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=30331&view=findpost&p=181242) should be in red lettering a foot high, and should then say 'Are you really, really sure?' I can see the day when a user will be posting here (from another pc) asking how to get his data back.
The whole wfs business is confusing, with some users never touching it and some grimly determined to beat their disks to death. Perhaps the whole shebang should be removed to a new application called Swiper (or something), expressly for wiping bits or all of a disk, and let CC get back to its roots.
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Not that I can find (although I haven't looked recently), which is a shame.
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Perhaps the developers intended these options to remain so that users could set wfs up and run it regularly in the Cleaner Analyse/Run panel. It's just too glaring to be left as an oversight. But then what would be the point of a separate section in Tools?
My personal opinion is that it should only be an option in Tools, and there is no need for the option in either Cleaner or Options/Settings.
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Everything that Dennis said, plus
And why can I select Normal file deletion (Faster) at Options > Settings > Secure Deletion? If I want no secure deletion, I can uncheck the box at Cleaner > Windwos > Advanced > Wipe Free Space!
I believe that the Secure Deletion option in Options > Settings > Secure Deletion refers to file deletion, and in Options > Settings > Secure Deletion refers to wiping free space.
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Ah well, some you win, some not. Did you try the deep scan? If you do find any copies then recover them all and look at them afterwards.
It is a mystery how this happened. NTFS is quite a stickler for not losing data, but Google shows a lot of hits for corrupted MFT so it can and does happen from time to time.
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Hi Brax,
As far as I know, Recuva in normal mode scans the MFT (sequentially?) and displays a list of thsoe records that have the delete bit set. If you opt for scan for non-deleted files then Recuva displays all records in the MFT.
So it appwars that there is a record in the MFT for your file which isn't flagged as deleted, but isn't seen by Explorer. I wonder if there's some corruption in the MFT record for the containing folder, or somewhere in its structure.
Try copying the entire folder to a flash drive or other partition, and see if this has copied the 'lost' file. This fits in the category of more hope than science, but it's quick start.
I would test what you have originally recovered, on a flash drive or other partition. You say it's weird, but can it be opened by Excel and the data is weird, or is it unopenable? If unopenable, can you look at it with Wordpad and see if there are any identifiable contents such as column headers, etc. that you recognise as belonging to your file?
If it is rubbish then you could schedule and run a chkdsk. I don't know whether this will cure all MFT ills, but it's worth a try.
If that's a failure then you could run a Recuva deep scan. This will take ages to run, but you might pick up a not-too-old edit or saved copy of the file which is better than nothing.
Deep scanning estimated 3 days - not moving.
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It seems that the option to make a one-off donation has been removed following the introduction of paid support. I suppose you could buy a year's support, but that's ?20 whereas a one-off tenner would be perhaps more acceptable.