How long the deleted files linger in your hard drives?

[MikeWalsh]

So Rox-filer overwrites deleted files?

Unnh....no. That's not what I said.

Standard file-manager behaviour is like the way M$ has always done it; by default, stuff goes in the 'Trash' (so it can be recovered if required). ROX's standard behaviour is to delete; it doesn't come with a built-in 'Trash' location OOTB, so many years ago one of our veteran members on the old forum built a 'Trash' application for Puppies using ROX-filer (itself built as a "ROX-app", ROX's native executable directory format).

Sorry if I misled you on that point. You'll never catch me using something like Bleachbit, which I categorise along with the 'disk destroyer', dd.......because it's all too easy to totally brick your system if you don't know EXACTLY what you're doing with it.

In that respect, @The Duck is absolutely 'on the money' with his statement; you need to take the time to teach yourself just HOW to use something like Bleachbit effectively AND safely. You cannot just jump in and start clicking things at random..!

Not unless you enjoy making life hard for yourself.

(shrug...)


Mike.

 

[ron.alan]

When you delete a file with ROX, it's GONE.

So it's not really gone . . . it can be recovered with a recovery app.
(When you said GONE, I assumed unrecoverable.)

 

[Terminal Velocity]

So it's not really gone . . . it can be recovered with a recovery app.
(When you said GONE, I assumed unrecoverable.)

nautilus-wipe is a tool for Gnome file manager, it will add wipe option to the right click menu, very handy, and the file is gone, unrecoverable... If you have Gnome go for it