Sabrina28

hazelnut, Yes, thanks, I read the following article you posted: Note: You cannot securely delete the ZIP file in Step 2 before you recover it. Recuva only creates the ZIP file when you choose to recover the emails. So...I recovered it with Recuva and then tried to securely delete it with the overwrite feature on Recuva, but it still refused to wipe it. I also tried cipher from windows tool box, and itwould not get rid of Thunderbird emails.zip either.

Thanks Augeas for your response. Are you saying it is impossible to overwrite those emails that I had deleted since 2012 without doing a secure erase of my whole system...which I was hoping to not have to do. I am not concerned abouit any space they are taking up. I had just rather not have some of them there that can be recovered. I thought they had been overwritten by the program called Erase. I had also used CCleaner but neither one overwrote those files. The emails are not in Thunderbird's database. I even tried filling up my free space with files hoping to overwrite them that way, but no, they were still found on there by recuva. Can anyone on here tell me what is keeping those files from being overwritten? I was able to overwrite everything eles on the free space with recova except that. Thanks.

Hello all. I am trying to overwrite a file using recuva, but it keeps telling me that it is unable to overwrite special file type. The file name is Thunderbird emails.zip. When I first found it I recovered it then went back later to overwrite it with recuva so it would not be in my ssd drive free space. Does anyone know why this cannot be overwritten? Thanks for any help with this.