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Re: Cleaning freespace on my iPod (pseudo-random) reports er .Net is erroring out. That's the only conclusion I've got here. I don't have an iPod to test this on... so if someone can figure out how or why this is happening, I could fix the code...

Pretty much, only when they are being erased. But files are deleted after erasure and files are (currently) only deleted one at a time.

Yeah, it should be fine. I don't use that set up, however. You could let me know if and what doesn't work

Sometimes users decided to add a Program Files folder to the list. If they only erased the C: drive, that would be fine. We could still use those file names. But what happens if he erases a USB key? He wouldn't be expecting program file names there, right? This isn't the only particular case...

Yes, while nothing in the world is quite that random, zeroes are never found in an MFT, either. Given these two options, I think random noise is a bit safer... There is the possibility of using user-provided file names (extending the concept of plausible deniability using decoys) but previous...

Because if I were to write the FAT code in C#, I'd probably foam at the mouth :P FAT is so low-level that trying to express its intent in a high-level language like C# (where pointers and such are second-class citizens) is kinda committing Seppuku.

Re: [v5, v6] Why does it take so long to overwrite free spac How much disk space do you have left?

Re: Cleaning freespace on my iPod (pseudo-random) reports er That would be useful. Eraser 6.0 uses .net 3.5. See if you can trap the exception and get a stack trace.

Re: Cleaning freespace on my iPod (pseudo-random) reports er A stack trace would be helpful, are you able to get one from the exception?

Re: Cleaning freespace on my iPod (pseudo-random) reports er "IO operation will not work. Most likely the file will become too long or the handle was not opened to support synchronous IO operations." is not an error that I know Eraser, .NET Framework or Windows will report.

Re: Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affec Eraser's erase features are non-destructive for data you want to keep. So although we do clean the MFT, we only erase entries which already are deleted. MFT erasure comes as part of doing an unused space erase. There's no option to...

Re: Cleaning freespace on my iPod (pseudo-random) reports er Is that translated? What's the original language?

Okay, I just did a static code analysis (i.e. the brain as the compiler, lol) and found out why memory's leaking like that. I've got a fix on my local machine that's untested, would you like to try it out? It should be in r2728 (so builds 2728 and later will have the fix) I'll test it on a...

Oh, FAT doesn't have an MFT, so cleaning it is VERY easy, and already implemented in Eraser's code. It also will compact your directory indices for you. Let me just confirm that we're both on the same page before I give suggestions: the memory usage shoots up ONLY when the progress of the erase...

Arguably, no, because the MFT in it's original state would have been a small contiguous file. With new files it grows and fragments, with gaps in betwee. No one's MFT is compacted and cleaned and with zeroes... unless you wipe it. Then again, the whole thing about using a Cryptographically...

I've got a fix in r2727. Maybe you'd want to have a shot at it? For the file left on the desktop, it's there for all Eraser versions. It's just how fast Explorer decides to refresh the desktop, you should be able to get rid of it by Refreshing the desktop or hitting F5.

Yup, I think it is a remnant when Secure Move didn't make it to 6.0. Just be careful not to remove the ones that are used for normal context menu operations.

Re: Fresh install of 6.0.10.2620 says a new version is avail I've done the second half of the fix in r2721.

Re: Fresh install of 6.0.10.2620 says a new version is avail Okay, it seems like for 6.0.10 the fix is on my database end. I'll add a second fix so that in future even if the database is set wrongly we'll still get the right download.

You cannot physically address sectors on a disk from software; the most you can do from software is logically addressing them. It is the job of the disk firmware to translate logical addresses to physical addresses and AFAIK there isn't a way to physically address them, short of using...