Sorery - sent too early....
I meant the following files:
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db
%LocalAppData%\IconCache.db
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles (RR) Galloway
To:
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 01:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Suggestions-t-2419] Add /W(ipe) option to several commands
re:
| I also found that deleting all files there (with TCC) left the recycle bin's desktop
| icon screwed up.
Maybe you need to erase the iconcache then restart the computer? Are other icons messed up?
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Fábián
To:
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Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:54 PM
Subject: RE: [Suggestions-t-2419] Add /W(ipe) option to several commands
| I experimented a bit too. When I went into
| e:\recycler\s-1-5-21-3291446647-2681218026-3195555329-1005\ with a
| command prompt, DIR showed files with different names than they had before
| they were deleted. Is that typical (I don't often use the recycler)?
Yes it is. The recycler is a flat directory, so files with the same name deleted from different directories can no longer have their original names. The file INFO2 appears to contain the mapping of RECYCLER content to original (full) file specification.
| I also found that deleting all files there (with TCC) left the recycle bin's desktop
| icon screwed up.
Not here.
| I'd think overwriting several times with random characters would be
| better than with all zeroes/ones but I'm no expert.
The phenomenon called HYSTERESIS is the reason to perform multiple overwrites; what's important is to flip each bit multiple times. Using the same value for each bit may reduce "crosstalk" hysteresis (e.g., between adjacent disk tracks).
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Steve