[does recuva undo ccleaners wipes?]

well i can see the thumnails on some, and just file names on others with "no preview"

 

using the latest versions.

[How to delete files permanantly]

i'm also having this problem... why say wipe free space completly removes the files when it doesnt?

 

does anyone know how you can? or a programme that can do this? or do you have to wait until that part of the harddrive is overwritten?

 

cheers

[does recuva undo ccleaners wipes?]

Did you actually open the files you recovered?

 

didn't try... there's just a load of thumbnails... why would they be there if ccleaner was supposed to wipe em?

 

cheers

[does recuva undo ccleaners wipes?]

i ran recuva, and had alot of old files...

 

i did a gutman wipe with ccleaner, and a clear white space.

 

when i went back into recuva, all the files were still there... surely this defeats the purpose of ccleaner?

 

or is there something i'm missing here?

 

thanks

[Safe CleanUp problems]

Hi there,

 

This is my first topic and I already searched for the same problem I have with the Safe CleanUp tool within CCleaner but can only see topics from around 2007.

Since it is 2009 now, is it?, because since I noticed that this Safe Cleanup tool does not do his work for some reason, nothing is sure for me now.

 

My problem is that when I run the Safe Cleanup tool within CCleaner, and use the Gutman or the single overwrite setting, it seems as if it does its job untill you run the program Recuva (Also of Piriform).

 

I was mainly interested in deleting all the stored JPG in the Internet temp files but also any other "rubbish" but RECUVA restores everything I wanted to get rid of.

 

My settings within Ccleaner are on Default (with the exception of Windows logfiles within WINDOWS - SYSTEM)

 

Does anybody know whats going on here? Does this Safe Cleanup tool still doesn't work like the remarks in 2007?

 

Am I doing something wrong f.e. wrong or incomplete settings?

 

Any answer would be appreciated!

 

i'm having the same problem, i did a wipe with the Gutman wipe, checked with Recuva... and all the files were still there... then did a wipe white space, took about half an hour... and when i opened up Recuva, they were all still there?

 

it kind of defeats the purpose of the cleaner.

[what exactly does a simple wipe do?]

The wipe modes are discussed here.

 

A single 1-pass "simple wipe" should make the files non-recoverable in a general sense. However with stuff being located in the MFT (which can't be touched) not everything can be successfully wiped out when for instance using wipe free space.

 

cheers, i take it Normal file deletion can be retrieved easy enough...

[what exactly does a simple wipe do?]

it says it's faster... does it permantly delete files? or are they just easier to recover?

 

also, what's wipe free space... is this nessasary to completly delete files?

[CCleaner query]

so is this just a problem with google chrome?

[multiple simple wipes?]

just curious, if i was to do a simple wipe on 3 different occasions, is this the same as doing 1 DOD , -M (3 passes)

 

i'm thinking yes... like wiping a table 3 times?