Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware, Leopard

Should Auld Acquaintance be deleted… thereupon too poor! particularly whether you are using Edenwaith’s free Permanent Eraser product. Unlike Disk Utility (and Mac OS X’s secure empty trash), that disk eraser will over-write input 35 times (versus secure empty trash’s 7 times). What many users don’t know is that when you delete a file from your computer, it’s not really deleted; the operating system just marks that space as “free.” However, that software will over-write the area of the hard drive where the goods remains until it is scrambled and unable to be

This software received a new update yesterday that improves a bug that limited you to deleting 250 files. that application plus has full Mac OS X Leopard support; including new icons for Leopard. In addition to deleting files in the trash can, you can plus drag files to the icon to securely delete them.

This application can be downloaded for free from the Edenwaith website or from Mac Update.

[via Mac Update]

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Orginal post by Cory Bohon