Cannot erase single small file: some observations
I am experiencing the same problem as reported by other users (see jt posting above, as well as
http://www.cipherserver.com/phpbb2/view ... 4892fa4466)
In Windows Explorer, when I want to erase a small file (few kBytes) by right clicking the file and selecting “Erase”, the “Erasing report” window displays the following message:
“Task completed. All data could NOT be erased”
the “Failures” field (lower half of the “Erasing report” window) displays “failed” followed by the full path of the file I attempted to delete.
In addition, I tried the following two things:
a) moved the problematic file to another folder and tried to erase it from that other folder.
Result: got error message “File locked by another process. Do you want to Erase after restart?” (the file was a small text (.txt) file I had created, which was not used by any application at that time (it was not an index.dat file or the like). The fact that I was able to move the file to another folder without problem should prove that the file was not locked by an application).
b) selected simultaneously two files to be erased (the one I wanted to erase + another file in that directory)
Result: both files erased without any failure message (i.e. the initial file, which would not erase when selected alone, got erased without any problem when part of a multiple file erasing process, even when the second file is a also a small file).
Computer configuration:
OS: Windows XP home edition, Service Pack 2
File system: NTFS
Hope this can help to debug the issue.
Thanks for the great and very convenient tool that Eraser is.
