Hi Adrian, Secure delete can take a very, very long time. It overwrites the data 35 times over - so if you have a 10 GB music library, on that User Account, that secure erase process can easily last 35 hours.
Without knowing the actual write speed of your drive and CPU in practice, it's probably still overwriting. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 14/03/2012, at 10:10 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: > Good morning all! > > The last message on the subject didn't make a lot of sense so here it is > again. > > Yesterday I attempted to delete a user account from the MacBook Pro (OS X > 10.7.3) and checked the "Secure" delete box, 24 hours later it is still > deleting it. Does anyone know if you can stop this process and then delete > it without checking the secure delete box. > > > > > Regards, > > > Adrian > > [email protected] -- 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>
