captainmidnight
New Member
OK, so Eraser 6 has done away with eraserl.exe, and you access Eraser.exe directly instead. Fine. But here are some issues that I have found:
1) I had to add the Eraser install directory to my path in order for the the Eraser command to be available to my dos shell; I do not recall having to do that for Eraser 5 (indeed, I must not have, since when I edited my path just now, I did not see an entry for Eraser 5).
2) I have a weekly scheduled task that executes a bat script which, among other things, uses Eraser to wipe the free space on several volumes. My old eraser command lines looked like this:
From what I understand, the new Eraser 6 equivalent command line would be:
The above actually seems to execute, but it does so asynchronously instead of synchronously. That is, the eraser command soon returns, since it starts a new process which does the actual erasing concurrently with the process executing my bat script. This is a disaster, since my script goes on to do other stuff like defrag the volume in question.
What I need is for that eraser command line to not return until the action has finished.
Furthermore, there has gotta be a more user friendly way of specifying the method type than that unreadable huge number!!!
Am I using Eraser 6 wrong? Is there a way to get it to work as needed?
Thanks much.
1) I had to add the Eraser install directory to my path in order for the the Eraser command to be available to my dos shell; I do not recall having to do that for Eraser 5 (indeed, I must not have, since when I edited my path just now, I did not see an entry for Eraser 5).
2) I have a weekly scheduled task that executes a bat script which, among other things, uses Eraser to wipe the free space on several volumes. My old eraser command lines looked like this:
Code:
eraser -disk C: -method Random 1 -silent -queue
Code:
eraser addtask --method=bf8ba267-231a-4085-9bf9-204de65a6641 --schedule=now --unused=C:,clusterTipsThe above actually seems to execute, but it does so asynchronously instead of synchronously. That is, the eraser command soon returns, since it starts a new process which does the actual erasing concurrently with the process executing my bat script. This is a disaster, since my script goes on to do other stuff like defrag the volume in question.
What I need is for that eraser command line to not return until the action has finished.
Furthermore, there has gotta be a more user friendly way of specifying the method type than that unreadable huge number!!!
Am I using Eraser 6 wrong? Is there a way to get it to work as needed?
Thanks much.
