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Eraser does not work on Ubuntu its Windows only.

You can create a scheduled task but it needs to run under some user with access to the drives.

I suggest running chkdsk on the PC then try a freespace erase including cluster tips. After all that run your recovery app and see the result. Recovery apps will recover thousands of files after a freespace erase as Eraser creates these to fill up the disk. The files should not contain any...

Open to debate as its a feature to follow the link in explorer and some users asked for this exact feature.

The best option is to download dban and burn it to CD, then boot from that and wipe the drive. Running eraser on the C drive gets messy as it cannot erase files in use so you cannot fully wipe the C drive.

Is this PC your or a corporate PC? Have you turned off UAC? Run chkdsk on the drive and see if there are any issues. Also check the permissions settings on any file you want to erase - it could be the file permissions have been messed up preventing you deleting the files.

If the external drive is a normal magnetic drive and you have not been editing the files on the drive you should be ok. If you have been editing the files there probably will exist fragments on the drive and you need to consider a full wipe of the drive. If the drive is solid state then you...

For SSD /Flash drives you must erase the entire drive and not just 1 file. Even then you do not have 100% guarantee as the SSD can store data in overprovisioned areas. Search the forums on SSD to see the what other users have suggested.

Turn off UAC or run as administrator to reduce the 'completed with errors' probability. >>So is there any plan to get the "secure move" and other lost functionality back? What other lost functionality do you refer to? I did a recompile of the old pure C++ version and am seeing what...

No its not dead, we still maintain it and the priority now is on keeping things stable.

Answered this in your other post: Grab the latest version from the download page - see http://eraser.heidi.ie

Grab the latest version from the download page - see eraser.heidi.ie

the only way to confirm secure deletion is to scan the drive with forensic software afterwards.

Try running eraser as administrator - as in 'Run as Adminsitrator' in explorer. Eraser is still being maintained but nothing new has been added so no new releases, everything is pretty stable.

try running eraser as administrator, right click on eraser.exe and select 'run as administrator'

We looked at this before and it caused more problems than it was worth. If its one single drive multhi threading just makes things slower or even locks up the computer.

did you get eraser from sourceforge? The install should be digitally signed.

Manually create a schedule in windows - or copy the one from another machine.

DBAN would be easier as it will just clean the whole drive. You need the .net framework to use eraser.

Are you certain there is not a HDD issue? A free-space erase is one certain way to expose any HDD errors.