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Hi Alan_b, I think I will upload a screenshot of my CCleaner settings and what Recuva is displaying so we are all on the same page. I don't want to waste anyone's time further. I just thought it was odd that Recuva would indicate a file was "Unrecoverable" when it was overwritten by the same file (occurs for a lot of files), please see the text I provided earlier: Filename: IMG_0774_2.JPG Path: C:\Users\harsha\Pictures\2009_09_10_develop Size: 7.53 MB (7,896,127) State: Unrecoverable Creation time: 26/12/2010 12:41 Last modification time: 26/12/2010 12:41 Last access time: 10/09/2009 12:05 Comment: This file is overwritten with "C:\Users\harsha\Pictures\2009_09_10_develop\IMG_0774_2.JPG" 1928 file cluster(s) overwritten (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, ...) 1928 cluster(s) allocated at offset 9565460 I will try to get the screenshots tonight. Thanks.

I still see the pictures in the directory. Why would this be happening? Having a state of "unrecoverable" and still being able to see the file is a bit disheartening regardless of how the file was deleted. I'm using CCleaner 3.23.1823. I'm going to download the latest version and re-run my CCleaner. I will use the following settings (this will take a few days to run): Secure Deletion: Secure file deletion Very Complex (35 times) Wipe Alternate Data Streams Wipe Cluster Tips Wipe Free Space drives - C: Wipe MFT Free Space - Any concerns or suggestions? - does anyone suggest deleting Window temp files that are less than 24hrs old? - is there a difference between CCleaner Professional and free? I'm using a trial Pro version right now? Thanks for all the help.

Thanks for the quick responses by everyone. This occurred on my Compaq Vista machine which is having hard drive issues (NTFS). I actually don't want to restore any files. I wanted to verify the CCleaner was removing the files before I take it into Best Buy for analysis.

Please see samples below. Filename: IMG_1153.JPG Path: C:\Users\harsha\Pictures\2009_06_27 Size: 3.64 MB (3,818,161) State: Unrecoverable Creation time: 26/12/2010 12:33 Last modification time: 26/12/2010 12:33 Last access time: 10/09/2009 12:34 Comment: This file is overwritten with "C:\Users\harsha\Pictures\2009_06_27\IMG_1153.JPG" 933 file cluster(s) overwritten (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, ...) 933 cluster(s) allocated at offset 8996042 Filename: IMG_0774_2.JPG Path: C:\Users\harsha\Pictures\2009_09_10_develop Size: 7.53 MB (7,896,127) State: Unrecoverable Creation time: 26/12/2010 12:41 Last modification time: 26/12/2010 12:41 Last access time: 10/09/2009 12:05 Comment: This file is overwritten with "C:\Users\harsha\Pictures\2009_09_10_develop\IMG_0774_2.JPG" 1928 file cluster(s) overwritten (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, ...) 1928 cluster(s) allocated at offset 9565460

I ran Recuva and looked to "Pictures" files that I had deleted. Most of the ones that have a State = Unrecoverable have a Comment = "This file is overwritten with "<the same file I was trying to access>". What does this mean? I can see the image perfectly in the Preview tab. Is this what is supposed to happen?