Deleting everything that recurva found in a full scan

Recuva
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I'm trying to clean up some files that should not be recovered "ever", so I'd prefer not having to select then out of a list of 40000 files, I'd rather just delete everything.

Is there any reason that deleting everything that recurva found in a full scan would be a bad idea? Does it find anything but deleted files ? I just appears to have found files that should be active, I'm almost certain that I didn't delete some of the ones it found. Is it possible that a defrag moved files around, leaving parts of files behind that in essence are deleted?

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Note that under Options > Actions, the "Scan for non-deleted files" is NOT selected.

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You can securely overwrite all the files that Recuva foundk, whether you are in normal or deep scan. I imagine that it would take some time.

Whether it would be what you want is another matter. After securely deleting everything Recuva will still show the same list of files, the file data however would be overwritten with zeroes.

If you're looking for particular files to overwrite then you can sort on name, date, path, extension etc. which will cut down the list to be overwritten.

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If you're referring to the deleted filename entries they cannot be removed or hidden using Recuva you can however do this with Eraser

The latest version is 6.0.8.2273 but I prefer 5.8.8 because is less bloated and doesn't require dot.net :)

Richard S.

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Well, there's always CC's wipe free space/wipe MFT.