On 21/11/2011, at 3:39 PM, Tim Law wrote: > On Monday, 21 November 2011, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bill, >> >> You must have “Empty Trash securely” selected in Finder > Preferences > > Advanced. >> DON’T select “Empty Trash Securely” take the tick out of it. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni > > > Out of interest and learning Ronni - why is this not a good idea? > > Is 'secure empty trash' never a good idea, or is setting it as default the > problem?
Hi Tim, When you just use the default ‘Empty Trash’ it is possible to recover many deleted files using special Data-Recovery software. For example, if you accidentally deleted/trashed a file you later find you really should not have deleted, you have a chance of recovering that file. When you use “Secure Empty Trash”, you completely overwrite deleted files (several times) that are in the Trash so no one can ever get to them. Your chances of recovering files is ‘zero’! Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
