"Not deleted" files

Recuva
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Can someone help me understand why Recuva would show me "not deleted" files? I'm guessing maybe its files that could be recovered that have been moved around by a defrag, but that the files actually still exist on a different part of the hard drive.

What I was trying to do with Recuva was to check all the files in the list, then have it securely overwrite them all. Seems when I pick the entire list, I dont get that option. Too bad there isn't a way to just check all the ones that could be securely overwritten by Recuva, or is there?

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Possibly because you have the Option 'Scan for Non-Deleted Files' checked. This will give the symptoms you describe. Uncheck it and all will be well.

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Possibly because you have the Option 'Scan for Non-Deleted Files' checked. This will give the symptoms you describe. Uncheck it and all will be well.

That was exactly the problem, I must have clicked that option on by mistake, as I'm not trying to perform a failure recovery.

That fixed it, many thanks.