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  1. Is there any way of disabling the Comment operation in Recuva? Scan is very fast, but when stage 2 is entered, extracting info to load into the Comment column, it takes quite a while (OK, a few seconds). I don't particularly want to see the status of all the umpteen thousand deleted files on my hard drive, so can I skip this step?

  2. That way you could also select everything from a single day.

    Just sort in date order, then select.

     

    It would be a lot easier if we could have it only show the files of a certain folder and from that recover what we want. Once again, if you forgot the name of a file, but this time know where it was.

    Use the Filename or Path option.

     

    I think we have a fairly wide selection capability, but I guess the developers are the referees. Rgds.

  3. Yes, but why would you want to do that more than say, once or twice in your life? If you need regular mass secure deletions or recoveries of hundreds or thousands of files then perhaps there's a better way of managing your pc. Secure deletion is far better done with a different application (say CC?) and recovery after deletion is inherently unstable. If you want to wash your disk use a disk washer. This isn't what Recuva is designed to do, or does very well.

  4. Yes. Click on the State column to sort in Excellent, Poor, etc order. Then highlight the first excellent, hold down shift, and tick on the last excellent. Then right click and click on Check Highlighted. Then decide what to do with it! Rgds.

  5. I only have Old Prefetch Data, User Assist History, and Custom Files and Folders ticked under Advanced. I think that some of the others clear out just too much for me, passwords, folder view options, etc. The 'dangerous' ones give a warning when you tick them.

     

    I should be more wary of registry cleaning until you are more familiar with CC, and then go softly!

  6. I think you flatter my skills, Davey! I have noticed, by looking at deleted files with Recuva, that those secureley deleted by CC which are in the MFT are overwritten with zeroes (I only do one overwrite). However if you select secure delete on these files with Recuva it will fail, as the file is in the MFT. That leads me to conclude that CC does something simple such as overwrite the file to be deleted with zeroes, rename it, and then delete it. That's given away a few secrets. Recuva, on the other had, possibly can't do the same trick, as it would have to manipulate the MFT directly instead of using operating system (Windows) read/write/delete commands. Overall, I'm rather glad Recuva doesn't try to tweak the MFT.

     

    A day or so ago I had to securely delete some 50 gb of old data, a large amount for me, a load of old backups I was consolidating. When this was done I checked with Recuva and found about four files which hadn't been renamed or overwritten. I securely deleted them (except for one which was in the MFT!) and eventually these files were overwritten by new files. I wonder if some files are in some way unavailable to CC when it runs? Either locked, or in the swap file, or yet to be committed to disk? I don't know, just speculating.

     

    It all keeps the brain active, what few cells are left.

  7. There is info on what a new release does in the announcment on this forum and also on Piriform's web pages. Filehippo is a separate entity so perhaps we have to put up with a few clicks in return for them offerring a hosting service. A few clicks every month or so is no great deal.

     

    The last thing I want is auto update. The times I've sat here waiting for a pdf file to display and there's some hidden window asking, no telling, me to update. I'd sooner run my own pc than have it tell me what to do.

     

    Rgds.

  8. As far as I know CC will only clean files on the c, or system, hard drive. If you want to clean files on other drives they have to be included in the Options - Include section. I assume you haven't done this.

     

    Have you actually lost anything that's on the ipod, or have you lost something that enables you to play music through your pc from the ipod, or lost files which were on your pc waiting to be transferred to your ipod?

     

    CC is, like many houshold products, a fairly mild cleaner. Rgds.

  9. Ron, is the corollary of this that we should securely delete even overwritten files, as there may still be sectors around that haven't been overwritten and could conceivably be recovered? (I would expect to do this only on sensitive files, such as user data, I am not a 'securely delete at all costs' user.)

     

    If we recover a part-overwritten file (with Recuva), does the recovery include all the sectors of the original file, the good as well as the bad?

     

    Rgds.

  10. Me again. I rebooted and ran analyse with Start Menu/Desktop shortcuts ticked. 17.46 secs for 12.2 mb. I rebooted and ran analyse without Start Menu/Desktop shortcuts ticked, 27.7 secs for 12.2.mb. Still with those grey filenames.

     

    As an aside, once the first analysis of the day has been run subsequent analyses, and deletions, run very quickly. I don't suppose this (running analysis first, then running delete) is the reason why some users have speedy deletions. They would have said so, wouldn't they?

     

    I don't believe that secure deletion has any effect on analysis times, and my slow running is without secure deletion.

     

    I don't believe that Start Menu/Desktop shortcuts ticked or not has any significant effect on analysis times.

     

    I don't believe that PC spec has any effect on analysis time, as I'm on P4 3 gb with 1 gb memory.

     

    I believe it's the analysis time that is slow. If the analysis stage is not run then there is an implicit analysis run in the delete option, which makes it slow. Run analyse first, deletion is fast.

     

    In other words I don't really know the answer.

  11. Yes, I was disappointed when Piriform introduced the 35-pass overwrite. If ever there was a greater computing myth, a more useless consumer of resources, then this is it.

     

    Pub schedules are easy. When approaching the establishment just veer left or right, as appropriate, and you find yourself in the company of fine fellows who will happily join you in convivial refreshment. Mind you, I am a little concerned about the state of beer in Maryland. Too cold and fizzy!

     

    Keep up the good work.

  12. I'm not using secure deletion, and I'm just running analyse. Yesterday it took 66 secs to analyse 28 mb. Today after I booted up I ran analyse. 16.8 secs for 7 mb of data. It is very slow. This has nothing to do with secure deletion.

     

    Repeat runs are very fast, almost sub-second, so I guess CC uis holding info on some temp file somewhere.

     

    At present I have Start Menu/Desktop shortcuts ticked, although they don't actually clean anything. Next time I reboot I'll test it without these two ticked.

  13. The Recuva Options box (by default) does not show securely deleted files, although I don't know how it selects what has been securely deleted and what has not.

     

    The option to remove the filename from the MFT has been mentioned before, and I believe is on the to-do list. It probably is rather more difficult to do than simply overwriting a few sectors, and messing up the MFT would cause some agitation from users. Rgds.

  14. However,1 overwrite is sufficient unless you are expecting a visit from MI-5 ,FBI ,CIA or KGB.

    I couldn't agree more. This should be etched on the inside of every computer users' eyelids. If there is a reason to overwrite, and there isn't that often, then one overwrite is sufficient.

  15. My tests, including the 66-second analyse, were all done with normal deletion (no overwrites). Yes, there was a problem with secure deletes some versions ago, but I don't think this is relevant in this case. (I am of course on the latest version.)

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