Action Tab Recovery options/Secure Deletion

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Hey there, I actually have a few questions/problems. But first, When you go to Optons/Actions tab at

the bottom in the "Recovery" section you have 2 settings, "Restore Folder Structure" pretty self explanatory, but in that same section we have "Secure overwriting", now to me since it is in the

Recovery sections, I ask the question, when recovering does it want to also delete? or is this ONLY

for AFTER you have scanned and do the right click delete stuff? I do not want to delete anything

Pretty much NEVER.

The reason I am going to use this is because I was using a portable from portableapps.com called

pchat and it was running for about 24 Hours, I get a message about it wasn't able to write or someting like this and it said "all data has been lost" on my usb flash drive. Which also is weird because I was only running that program and not portableapps menu if you are familiar with it, so I would have thought it might just lose pchat or any info pertaining to pchat not everything on my drive, but Whatever Lol. So Should I use something to image or clone like testdisk or photorec or whatever before I try to recover? I know the less writing the better and I don't know what writes and what don't.

As far as I am concerned just plugging it in writes or opening it just to view contents writes. I dunno.

I have yet to turn off computer or remove flash drive in hopes this helps give me a better chance at recovery.

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Frown, I would have thought as big as Piriform is, there would be someone by now...

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Piriform might be big, but they almost never directly offer advice via this forum.

To them it is solely an avenue to get a direct heads-up of bugs and user concerns.

The members of this forum have no affiliation with Piriform and offer advice purely on a volunteer basis.

And of those members, the vast majority only sign up to get a resolution to their own particular problems.

Only a handful offer general help over all threads but each member has their own skill set. (personally, I'm not a big user of Recuva, so won't offer advice for you)

If someone is capable of helping you, and they have logged on and seen your thread, then eventually someone may respond.

Until then, patience Grasshopper :)

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And some people get really annoyed at thread bumping.

Restore Folder Structure and Secure File Deletion are two entirely separate functions. One won't trigger the other. It's one of the design quirks of Recuva that they are grouped together.

I can't really understand the rest of the post. I know nothing about pchat. I'm not even sure what the question is.

You can read your flash drive as many times as you want without danger, but garbage collection will continue when, and as long as, the drive is plugged in.

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Thanks for the replies.

I belong to a few forums and know this is not "support". And know Piriform has a lot of users and been around a long time.

Given the reason for and nature of Recuva, my particular situation and the amount of users you pretty much usually get a

quicker response, As i've heard/read its possible to recover and have better chances with less writing to a disk, that includes

starting/booting, plus there re ways to recover using cache/memory/temp unless ofcourse you shut down.

So I figured the amount of time I waited was absolutely reasonable given the dire need. As far as being annoyed because

I repied to my own post and NOT to thread bump as you call it, but because of the situation that just seems like a bad attitude.

Sorry if I "expected" more or a quicker response in my situation and from what I feel is a very big community.

Thread bump NEVER entered my not so tech/computer/forum what ever you want to call it, literate mind.

I know the 2 functons are completely different functions, the names imply that, and as you put it, "Design quirk", since

Secure file deletion is in the same Box or frame or Title as Restore Folder structure (I would have designed the GUI or whatever better if it were me, but that's me) it makes one wonder what is going to take place.

Maybe a design quirk is going to delete the files as you try to recover or as it's copying or something.

Pchat is an irc program. The reason I mentioned making a clone or image of the thing is because of the writing issue,

if you can make a clone or image and "try to recover" from that you're much better off that way you don't keep accessing the original.

My turn to not understand something, "You can read your flash drive as many times as you want without danger",

not real sure what this means, when using Recuva or a recovery program? I can't access it to begin with.