Is Eraser still under active development?

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kfreels

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I'm not seeing a lot of activity on that end. The last build I see is July of last year. It's been almost 2 years since 6.0 rolled out and still no secure move functionality. I see a little activity on this site but it appears to be users, not developers. Any clues what's going on? Is Eraser dead?
 
garrett01 said:
No its not dead, we still maintain it and the priority now is on keeping things stable.
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So is there any plan to get the "secure move" and other lost functionality back? I'm trying to figure out why in the world I would use this newer version when the previous version did everything I wanted to do. Is there some major security flaw in the previous version that makes it less capable of doing the job?
 
I loved Eraser on XP but now I am on Win7 64 bit it no longer works giving the 'completed with errors' message. An update would really be appreciated and I am happy to beta test. Is this issue being addressed? Thanks JW
 
Turn off UAC or run as administrator to reduce the 'completed with errors' probability.

>>So is there any plan to get the "secure move" and other lost functionality back?
What other lost functionality do you refer to?

I did a recompile of the old pure C++ version and am seeing what functionality is missing from the new 6.0 series.
You can download it yourself from here: http://files.denizon.com/Eraser 5.8.9_setup.exe
 
What I am waiting for is the implementation of a confirmation request when erasing via the Windows context menu. This was a capability in Eraser 5, it disappeared with Eraser 6. To protect me from accidentally erasing a file, I have disabled the context menu.

Equally important is the ability that existed in Eraser 5 to select the erasure method from the confirmation request.
 
DERoss said:
What I am waiting for is the implementation of a confirmation request when erasing via the Windows context menu. This was a capability in Eraser 5, it disappeared with Eraser 6. To protect me from accidentally erasing a file, I have disabled the context menu.
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^This, and secure move.
I really miss those features. It's way to easy to accidentally shred a file when you meant to do something else. It's a pretty aggressive thing to perform without a confirmation dialog.

I assume that on the same drive it just makes a change to the the MFT or something with no duplication of data to be erased.
Moving between drives I just make it two steps. Copy the data and then erase the old location. The context options would be nice though.

Is Win7 x64 compatibility otherwise pretty good. I just installed that on a system and have been hesitant to reinstall Eraser.
 
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