Scott, Actually, a disk forensics program like disk warrior would probably be able to recover 90% of a rm -rf if no additional writes have happened on the disk. Not sure about flash/SSD and newer FS's but UNIX 4.3 and Solaris would just remove the pointer to the iNode from the directory entry. I don't remember the exact way to do that but I know it would be more complex now since file names have to support unicode and much longer file names than the 32 characters I used with UFS. Makes me want to study modern kernels to think of this stuff.
On 7 December 2016 at 22:22, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: > You can also use the terminal for this. > > Change to the directory under terminal and use rm -rf and the directory > name. Note be very careful this is not reversible. > > > On Dec 7, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Navigate to the item you wish to delete, then press cmd-option-Delete. > A confirmation dialog will appear, confirm and it will be deleted > immediately without going to the Trash first. > > > > Later... > > > > Tim Kilburn > > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > > > On Dec 7, 2016, at 14:08, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I am running the latest El Capitan on my late 2008 iMac. > > > > I need to delete some rather large folders on a memory stick. It will > take for ever to move them to the trash and in any case I don’t need them > any more. 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