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Secure delete trash?
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wasnt this a feature that was talked about a lot? is it here or am i missing something. cant find it anywhere in preferences and help files say nothing about it.....
hmph?
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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in the finder, go the "Finder" menu....select "secure empty trash"
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...
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ah, thank you for that....
sometimes osx isnt as intuitive as one would hope....i love it but thinking about total newbies trying to figure out some of this stuff....like why isnt that in the help files?
and also, i thought you could decide on the number of passes that the secure delete made...was that in and then taken out at some point?
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Computer games don't influence kids...
If Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all
be running around in darkened rooms
munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music....
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How many overwrites does secure empty do in the final version of Panther? As I recall reading, the early betas let you pick from three different numbers of overwrites, but they took out the choices in the later builds...to which choice did they lock us in?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally posted by Tom C:
How many overwrites does secure empty do in the final version of Panther? As I recall reading, the early betas let you pick from three different numbers of overwrites, but they took out the choices in the later builds...to which choice did they lock us in?
From Apple's Website
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You can securely delete files � they�re overwritten with the same 7-pass algorithm approved by the Department of Defense � by choosing �Secure Empty Trash� in the Finder preferences.
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(Note that it *isn't* in the Finder preferences... it's in the Finder menu!)
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally posted by macfly:
ah, thank you for that....
sometimes osx isnt as intuitive as one would hope...
Well honestly, it's pretty intuitive to look right below the regular Empty Trash command! Why put it in the help file when it's so obvious?
tooki
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Join Date: May 2001
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Originally posted by tooki:
Well honestly, it's pretty intuitive to look right below the regular Empty Trash command! Why put it in the help file when it's so obvious?
tooki
Because stupid people like me prefer to right click on the trash icon in the dock 
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What an oversight that this isn't doable via right-clicking the trash icon. I'm hoping that someone creates a hack to do it that way.
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