Wonderful.
The only reason I was choosing to erase cluster tips is because I thought that files were stored in them.
I really appreciate the help, David. I'll report back with some results.
I use Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter, and one of the options for Disk cleanup is to compress old files. I haven't run this since I "deleted" the folder, so do you think it could still be compressed this way?
Also, I get this error message for multiple areas of the C drive:
Session...
Is there any reason that the folder I'm looking for would be in these categories (NTFS Shadow Copies) if it was just a general folder with regular files (.txt and .jpg)? Nothing executable or anything, mostly just word docs and some .jpg's.
The only error message I got was: (from memory)
The erasure of this file was not complete due to the file being compressed, encrypted or sparse.
I was advised on another forum to erase the free space on my drive, because this will overwrite all the data that I have not permanently erased. I...
I just did a search and read the rules, and I didn't find anything answering this question.
I just ran Eraser on a folder I had, using the "Files from Folder:" option. It ran, then came back w/ errors about how each file was compressed, sparse or encrypted. I did some research and found out...
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