How to delete files without the ability to retrieve

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How to delete files without the ability to retrieve.

Posted 8-Oct-12 4:33am

mrsh66

Updated 8-Oct-12 4:58am

Richard MacCutchan

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[no name] 8-Oct-12 10:41am

Not clear what you are trying to do or what it is that you are asking.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Oct-12 17:27pm

Retrieve -- from where? Or do you mean "delete the way it can be restored"?
--SA

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-08T04:41:00

Solution 1

I guess you are looking for something like this: Erasing Files Securely[^]

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Posted 8-Oct-12 4:41am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Oct-12 17:28pm

I was unable to understand the question this way (please see my comment to the question), but probably this is what OP wanted. My 5.
--SA

Espen Harlinn 8-Oct-12 17:29pm

Thank you, Sergey - it was the only way I could make sense of it :-D

Volynsky Alex 9-Oct-12 5:35am

Try to read it:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3813024/deleted-file-recovery-program-using-c-c

Espen Harlinn 9-Oct-12 5:41am

My guess is that OP wants to ensure that the contents of the file cannot be recovered, and then delete the file.

Your link seems to be about how files can be recovered.