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Right click on the task, select 'view log', and see what the error says. If it refers to a file you are not concerned about, there is no need to worry. I find that these errors usually disappear the next time I erase the contents of the Recycle Bin. There are various clever things you can do to...

Oops. I thought that Joel had done it deliberately. But do I not recall that the Assembly numbers were kept constant to preserve task lists ... David

How would an ordinary user with a failed hard drive know that Eraser was (or wasn't) the problem? Clearly, I can assess and take a risk with my own machines. Advising others to do the same on a public forum is, I think, a different matter. David

But if Windows has a corrupt installer database (or the installer is otherwise not working properly), Windows is, in that regard, clearly not 'fine'. There is no point in blaming the program if the Windows installer has not installed it correctly. David

Thanks for posting the info. In a normal Eraser installation, crash reports are saved to the Eraser 6 folder in the User's (hidden) Appdata/Local folder; they are in a separate sub-folder called (surprisingly) 'Crash reports'. Normally, if a report exists, Eraser asks to upload it when it...

I suppose someone was bound to spot it sooner rather than later ... :) The mismatch is deliberate. Joel left the plugins version at 6.0.9, so that people would not have their Task List cleared when they upgraded to 6.0.10. David

You live and learn! I think Joel's view about nightly erasures is legitimate; the difficulty is that there is very little published information about drive life, so one's instinct is to be cautious on the forum. David

To take your last question first, I use Eraser on USB connected drives all the time, and check the erase successfully. But these are all spinning drives. Flash drives and SSDs have wear levelling mechanisms which defeat standard erasure techniques and are impossible to circumvent because they...

Leaving aside the fact that I know of no way to do this (which is really a Windows rather than an Eraser issue), I'd recommend against running a free space erase every night. The wear and tear on your hard drive would be considerable. Whether enterprise standard hard drives are robust enough to...

Re: [v5&6] "Elevation Required" message while Erasing Free S Oh yes there is. Just try running a free space erase as a normal user, and see what happens ... Writing an empty file does nothing to erase free space (though it does overwrite an MFT entry). You could in theory keep on writing...

'Eraser has encountered a problem' is pretty uninformative. 'True' solutions require more information ... :) However, it is pretty clear that you have some sort of installation or setup error. Which version of Eraser are you using? Have you used more than one version of Eraser (or tried to...

If this is found to work, documenting step by step instructions for creating a WinPE boot disk with Eraser installed might be something we could link to Eraser 6.2 when it emerges. I suggest that anyone who wants to experiment should use a recent 6.1 nightly build they have found to work...

Because there is a lot of confusion on the issue, please could I ask you to confirm that you are explicitly running the program 'as Administrator' (which you have to do each time you run it, unless you change the properties of the executable file, and you stop the the running Eraser process...

To make clear the point implied by Joel's questions, the functions you are having difficulty with generally work (I know, because I use and test them frequently), so what we are trying to do is identify what issues in your installation or use of the program are causing your difficulties. I have...

In case Joel's 'not really' is confusing, his point is that you save the same amount of space by erasing it as by deleting it. I detect some misunderstanding about what Eraser does. It does not make space any more 'empty' that it was previously. What it does, as Joel says, is overwrite the data...

What do you mean by a 'blocking window'? If you mean a modal dialog, I don't think Eraser 6 has any of those (Eraser 5 did). If you mean the confirmation dialog for context menu erasing which appears in the 6.1 beta builds, this was a specific user request, and is, in my view, an essential...

Short answer: yes. Was there a reason for the question? David

Re: Illegal characters in path during erasing unused disk sp Just so. The way you did it is the opposite to what I described. David

Re: Illegal characters in path during erasing unused disk sp Let me be clear. I have on dozens of occasions tested Eraser (both file/folder and free space erasing) and then used a file recovery tool (typically, but not always, Recuva) to attempt to find and discover erased material. On no...

I don't use Windows Live Mail, but, from my reading, it appears that, once users access the store location, they may find a bewildering array of files and folders (this is true of other email programs also). I would advise any user who finds this at all confusing not to erase individual files...