Erasing free space of a disk : always reports errors ...

dabruna

New Member
Erasing free space of a disk : always reports errors ...
Two different disks and the same error after erasing their unused space.

Error Files in H:\System Volume Information did not have its cluster tips erased because of the following error:
Access to the path 'H:\System Volume Information' is denied.

So after one hour "is denied" ?
Has the unused space erased or not ?

Thanks
 

kuerten

New Member
Hi buddy, looks like you don't have access to this file/folder. Are you logged in as admin? Windows 7? Try granting permission on this folder too.
 

garrett01

Administrator
Staff member
For XP make sure you are logged in as administrator, check there is a reasonable amount of diskspace free, empty the recycle bin and retry.
 

dabruna

New Member
Fresh reinstall of 6.0.10.2620
Admin running on XP, recycle empty.
Disk : a new one, previsously formatted, partitioned and written with few data.
Launched the "erase the unused space" only once, but how there two tasks one queued along with the correct other ?

Anyway the result is same I informed time ago:
"Error Files in H:\System Volume Information did not have its cluster tips erased because of the following error: Access to the path 'H:\System Volume Information' is denied."

Folder images here
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nd1u5wveb06xgxj/B-dqlhb6BH
 

dabruna

New Member
With new version floppy is same always accessing.

Also, a new bug, when executing a wipe of file, the window for the task is not visible also in the tray bar.

But .... when releasing new version, did you check before it also in XP ?
 

garrett01

Administrator
Staff member
With this floppy problem I'll need to get an XP machine with a floppy drive, these days that could be a near impossible task, currently we test with XP VM images.

The task window you mention is a feature missing problem from 6.0

Await the next release....
 

dabruna

New Member
"The task window you mention is a feature missing problem from 6.0 "
It is NOT the truth.
With Eraser 6.0.10.2620 this windows was present !
 

garrett01

Administrator
Staff member
yes but this feature is excluded in 6.1 - could you send me a screen shot so I know we are talking about the same thing.
 

Joel

Active Member
System Volume Information is a protected folder and no one will be able to touch it. So don't worry about that error.

I probably might implement some whitelist that won't report these kinds of errors. But I'm not sure.
 

Joel

Active Member
I'm not trying to defend Eraser or anything, but CCleaner targets a slightly different audience. Naturally the behaviour would be different.

Eraser started out as a tool for (very) paranoid people. Or, well, at least I thought so.
 
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