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Obviously it's your baby and you can do whatever you like, but as a user I would strongly encourage you to stick with what people expect and I believe what people expect of your wipe program is that it behave as Windows Explorer does when deleting, especially as you integrate with Explorer...

Just to provide a bit more information... In the end I must have run like 20 tests, trying to see what it would follow, junctions or symlinks, and whether it mattered if there were other contents in the directory with the junction or symlink, and whether it mattered if the target of the reparse...

I was alarmed to discover last night that contrary to the manual Erasure DOES follow junction points/symlinks and does erase the content at the followed location (but leaves the empty followed directory there). I read and re-read the manual and find no other interpretation but that Eraser...