Jeffrey, My understanding of it is that emptying the trash is no different from just deleting a file in that it could still be recovered with any half decent recovery app, because it's only the file alocation table that's modified, the data itself you just deleted isn't overwritten until you really need that disc space. Secure empty actually writes over the data with random 1's and 0's making it way harder to recover.
hth Scott On 9/4/09, Jeffrey Shockley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, that's true, which is always why I always go to the Finder Window and > press Command, Shift, delete to make sure the Trash is emptied. > What is the difference between just emptying the Trash folder and Secure > Empty Trash? They seem to do the same thing. > Thanks, > Jeffrey > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "anouk radix" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:48 AM > Subject: Re: how to empty trash folder > > >> >> yes but it is context sensitive, in mail it removes your deleted >> messages but if i try it anywhere else it wants to do secure delete >> trash which takes ages and for some reason does not work here, i >> always get an error message when rying it and it takes hours. >> Greetings, Anouk >> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> Cool. Didn't know it works anywhere you are on the Mac. >>> Thanks for that. >>> Jeffrey >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Scott Chesworth" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:53 AM >>> Subject: Re: how to empty trash folder >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Hey Anouk, >>>> >>>> The keyboard shortcut to empty the trash is command-shift-delete. >>>> Works from anywhere you happen to be in the OS as far as I can tell. >>>> >>>> hth >>>> Scott >>>> >>>> On 9/4/09, anouk radix <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, i know i can put stuff in trash with cmd-del but if i am in >>>>> the thrash and i press that it returns it to its prev location. So >>>>> How >>>>> can I actually empty the trash? >>>>> Greetings, Anouk >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> > >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
