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I'll do this as soon as I can download 2549. David

Since writing the above, I have tested the obvious workaround (which I should have done earlier) and it seems to work. Delete the target folder to the Recycle Bin, and erase that. David

Since writing the above, I tried the OP's test with the latest 6.1 build (2541), and reproduced the results completely, with one exception. The task claimed to have completed sucessfully (no error messages in the Task Log, nothing in the Windows Event viewer), but the folder was not erased...

I agree with you. I tried this on my main machine where I am using a rather old 6.1 build (2284), which pre-dates some of the bug fixes in 6.0.9. In this case, trying to reproduce your bug actually crashed Eraser and, because the Black Box is enabled, brought up the crash assistant. The crash...

Its an odd error that doesn't immediately suggest account privileges issues to me. But you never know. As you are clearly an experienced user, you could try looking at the Windows Event Viwer. Joel generally uses the messages generated by .NET to trace back any error. It is straightforward to...

The option not to have Eraser start with Windows is already in the pipeline for Version 6.2. In the meantime, you can use msconfig to disable Eraser starting at startup. The running process will then only start when you invoke Eraser. It will, however, continue running until you explicitly exit...

To repeat Joel's questions; is the folder at the root of the drive, and can you post the contents of the Task log? To do the latter (it is perhaps not obvious) start your forum post; open the Eraser Task List, right-click the task in question,and select 'View Task Log'; click on the first line...

I find all discussion of the file/folder linking types in NTFS confusing, but I don't think this is a bug. Given that junctions fall within the general category of reparse points, the following excerpt from the Eraser manual appears to cover the case: As regards Trac, do you have a login, and...

... and there was me thinking it was just a graphic. Like lots of other people, I guess. In Firefox, if you mouse over a link at the top of the page it is easy to miss the URL at the bottom unless you are looking for it. More seriously, the link presumably isn't there unless the theme is set to...

This isn't exactly a bug in the forum, but would it be possible to add a link back to the Eraser home page to the standard site layout? At the moment, you can link from the Eraser site to the forum, but not, I think, vice versa. David

I have now tested Secure Move in Build 2442 (including verifying with Recuva). It works. David

There is a DBAN forum on SourceForge, where these comments might find a wider audience. But DBAN has had no developer support for, I believe, more than four years now. In that time hardware capabilities have moved on and any new developer would have all the hassle of finding or writing a...

... which is just what the forum is for :) David

By definition, nightly builds always carry stability risks, and that is likely to be more true than usual over the coming weeks; Joel has warned us that he is doing things 'under the hood' of Eraser, and some things may well break and need fixing as a result. Certainly that has been my...

The most likely reason you are having this problem is that you are not closing the running process before starting Eraser. The .exe may be running with admin. privileges, but the running process (which contains the erasing engine and typically starts with Windows) will not. That is why the...

There are a couple of points to make here. Firstly about CCleaner, which is a program with many capabilities. Any contention that it is 'not secure' needs a specific description of a specific problem; without such a description, no credence should be given to the judgement made. (This also...

Understood. Got it now. David

Thanks for the clarification. The computer will be going completely out of your control, so my second set of alternatives is, in my opinion, necessary for peace of mind. If the computer is a laptop (this also applies to some branded desktops), there will be either install disks or (more...

Joel The new themed version of the Eraser page appears to carry no reference to the Eraser Beta forum. The old version (which I still get after login, as I have not changed my preferences, carries the Beta frum David

The short answer is 'no'. The Windows system is much too complex, and the number of variables too great, for us to give you advice that will give reasonable assurance that everything you might reasonably want eradicated from a System drive will indeed be erased. The longer answer assumes that...