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If you mean, 'can Eraser erase something in the cloud?', the answer is that it can't. It is designed to work on local Windows file systems. By extension, it often will work with network and RAID drives that mimic the Windows file system, but that is, of course, dependent on the particular...

Two good answers are a lot better than none! You gave him the specifics of the answer, but I still think he would find it useful to read the 'sticky' FAQ posts, particularly the one I referred to. David

Use the link in my signature to go to the FAQ, and read the post entitled 'Getting to know Eraser 6', where you will find a section on running Eraser as Administrator. It's easy, but it's not obvious; you actually did half the job and then got the other half wrong ... :) Win 7 and Vista...

The latest stable version is 6.0.9.2343, and you should normally use that unless you wish to test development versions. The 6.1 build you were using was part of a sequence of builds in which Joel was doing and I was testing; it is not suitable for regular use. I didn't see your error on 2532...

I've only just seen the previous post, and think that, even though it is old, it should be answered. Eraser is a tool, and, like any other tool one can think of, it can be used for good and bad purposes. Criminals lock away or hide the evidence of their misdoings; would one on that account...

Re: [v5/v6] What needs erasure before giving my computer awa I have no reason to believe that Eraser is not as effective as the CMRR product in similar conditions; they are based on very similar technology. And, while a low level format is theoretically more secure than Eraser-style free space...

Fact: the best available evidence (see the link on the Eraser home page to the Wikipedia article on Data Remanence) is that even a single pass overwrite of data on any current (later than, say, 2000) hard drive is sufficient to make the data non-recoverable. So anything you overwrote is gone; I...

The same question was answered seven topic below this one, and the answer is in the FAQ in any case. The design decision to base Eraser on a running process was also answered in the FAQ. David

And was System Restore enabled on the drive? There are circumstances in which your results would be quite typical. The free space erase only overwrites space that the FAT has marked as free. I think many users would be surprised to learn how much space is not marked as free! Usually, the better...

I re-ran the tests using the OP's setup, and am happy to confirm that all erasures ran normally in build 2561, and that the bug is therefore fixed. David

Yes, that's a good thought. Do you want to set up the wiki, then I'll put in some thoughts about how we develop a test pattern. David

Would it not get more exposure as a sticky thread on the forum? David

Thanks, Joel. I'll test 2561 when I can, probably later today. As I think you were implying, one needs to take a balanced view of the amount of effort to be put into reparse point support. I don't think that they are that much used in the real world, and certainly not by most Eraser users. As...

Got it, I think. Became increasingly sure that the fix did not address the problem, so tested anyway. Build 2557. Used OP's setup (actually in the root of Drive E:, but I don't think that matters), and tried each element of the setup in turn. Results: the lowest level folder (under the original...

Subsequently, I was testing 2551 in relation to the context menu bug (now, I believe, fixed) discussed on the Beta forum. The System.IO exception I was getting now seems to relate to this discussion, so what follows is a repeat of the post I made in the other thread. No, it doesn't. And it's...

Oops :oops: And thanks, of course. David

Maybe ... relevant discussion on the beta forum. David

... but even before that, you should probably look at the crash when Eraser tries to delete a task initiated from the context menu and completed (separate report on the Beta forum). David

Installed 6.1.0.2551, and can confirm that the bug is fixed; using the OP's example, somefolder is satisfactorily erased. David

To add to Joel's point about the Task List, a free space Erase on Drive C: can produce a log with tens of thousands of entries. Clearing a log of this sort significantly reduces the size of the Task List file, and therefore what is read into memory when you restart Eraser. I have initiated a...