At 4:20 PM -0800 12/2/2002, flawed jai wrote: >when i took over my brther in law's 6360 on thanksgiving, he asked me to >please go thru everything on the hard drive and get rid of everything >personal that he had left stored on it. >i assured him I would. >I have done this before on a IIfx, opening files and dragging everything >that was obviously personal information or storage left by the previous >owner to the trash and deleting it permanentlyat the end of the task. in >that instance, it was resume letters and names in his Contact Now >address book. >In this case, I want to be absolutely sure I do right by him, because he >is a hollywood screenwriter, and for copyright reasons and his own >emotional reasons, I want to be sure I find everything that ought not >fall into strange hands, and really wipe out its existence for him. >are there hidden files need to be aware of that won't show up for my >eyes, as I am trying to do this manually? Is there something can use to >help me in my task?
Simply trashing the files and emptying the trash still leaves the data on the disk and it can be recovered fairly easily using Norton and other tools. Erasing it and then filling up the disk with data will completely remove it. You could do this by using a sound recording program and just let it run until it runs out of disk space and then erase the file it creates. Norton has a tool that will wipe files, disk or, IIRC, free space. It uses a method specified for classified stuff where it writes all ones, all zeros and then all ones (or vice versa) to where the data was. This is kind of the extreme method (short of drilling holes in the drive.) > >the last problem has me poised on the cusp of a potential worry, unless >my memory fails me from the last time i did this. >He named his hard drive something gothic and totally unlike my mindset. >i think he called it 'house of blood' or something ghastly like that. >I would want to rename the hard drive to something more innoccuous, but >I halted in midflight, wondering if changing the name of the hard drive >would foul up the machines ability to find files. you know, give it an >identity crisis or totally confound me later if i missed something >hidden somewhere and later networked this machine to my others. > >somebody calm me down, here, and walk me thru the moment till I relax >and remember how this works. this is a magnificent machine, and i don't >want to screw it up at the beginning, just doing housekeeping in >preparation to start up my time witih it. A few programs will freak out if you change the name of the HD. Lotus Notes is the worst offender. As a general rule the most that will happen is that you have to reselect a data file or something like that. Generally a program either uses a file number to locate a file or remembers the name relative to the System Folder and changing the HD name won't break either of these methods. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
