Jump to content

Augeas

Moderators
  • Posts

    4,542
  • Joined

Everything posted by Augeas

  1. Yes, lovely stuff, the original Lea and Perrins still made in Worcester after 165 years. Apparently the recipe came from India, and when it was reproduced in Worcester it was so foul it was banished to the cellars. Two years later and the taste of the now-matured sauce was transformed. So really it never has a best-by date, it just gets better! We need more surreal posts.
  2. Recuva 1.15 was released on 11th June, so this may be the fix Mr Ron was mentioning. Deep scan runs OK for me. Well, I say OK, it runs to completion but takes too blooming long to run frequently.
  3. Doesn't bother me, but I don't signup to many sites. You can't keep signing up, can you, there wouldn't be enough time in the day to visit all of these sites...
  4. Augeas

    SD recovery

    If you go to Options and tick Show zero byte and Securely deleted files then the files found and files shown should be the same. No software can do miracles, but have you tried doing a deep scan? You may find more recoverable stuff there.
  5. Greetings Xier, Yes, there is a setting which allows either files or folders (or both) to be excluded from the cleaning process. Open CC, select Options - Exclude, and then add the files/folders to be excluded. I'm not sure how this will work with Temp Internet files as I've never used this feature, so I suggest you try it. Your biggest problem might be in identifying and then listing all the files you wish to exclude. Alternatively just untick theTemp Internet Files box on the Cleaner page. This is far easier than trying to exclude stuff, but you will, I guess, have to have a clear-out some time.
  6. Apparently this is the .NET folder, whatever that is. A brief look at Google brings up the opinion that you should not delete this folder. Anyway, 500 mb is not too much these days (but on my XP system I only have 27 mb).
  7. Unfortunately Win98SE users must be in a minority now, even I eventually migrated to XP. The MFT - the file table used by NTFS - never gets rid of a filename entry. 'When files are deleted from an NTFS volume, their MFT entries are marked as free and may be reused, but the MFT does not shrink. Thus, space used by these entries is not reclaimed from the disk.' That's from Microsoft. Also defragging a volume may cause live files to overwrite deleted files, but will not change anything in the MFT. The MFT zone includes space for the MFT to expand contiguously, so defragging would be irrelevant. In the rare case where there are a vast number of user files (millions) the MFT can expand from the MFT zone into user space, but will not be reclaimed on a defrag. I forgot to mention the MFT mirror, but so did eveyone else. With all this complexity, and the massively critical status of the MFT (and its mirror), I doubt whether Piriform will ever risk clearing out deleted file names from the MFT. After all Microsoft can't do it, and it gains very little.
  8. This is just mild curiosity. I am a very lean user, with around 8.75 gb used on my 160 gb disk. When I run Recuva in normal mode it finds around 12,500 deleted files (incl secure deleted, system and zero byte files). Just about enough to handle. What do others have? I've run deep scan a couple of times but I can't remember how many files turned up. Quite a few, including, strangely, files that I have never deleted (such as windows default wallpaper) and some I can't remember ever owning. And some copies, scarily, of confidential files I have never deleted, presumably abandoned when the file grew in size.
  9. I disagree. Even as an option, it's another chunk of code to download, carry around and possibly cause errors. There are enough specialised free-space 'wipers' available already. You can overwrite all your data with Recuva, if you do a deep scan and then select all found for secure deletion. That's if you have a few days to spare. Don't blame me if it never finishes... As for the rest of the disk it's pointless overwriting space that's never been allocated. All this multi-overwriting is overblown, as Gutmann himself stated in the 90's. One overwrite is enought to secure anything that we need to eradicate. All this guff about electron scanning is sci-fi. Who has ever recovered overwritten data? What enterprise offers to do this today? What do you keep on your PC?
  10. As you are running CC daily it is unlikely to remove much junk each time (unless you are a heavy surfer). What options do you have set on the Cleaner page? Temp Internet files, Recycle Bin, Temp Files, are big space users. I hear that Google Earth is heavy on resources, so maybe you just have too many applications/files on your poor 37 gb drive. Uninstall anything you don't want, archive old stuff and delete it, just have a look around for old crud.
  11. This sort of topic just invites criticism of one's own spelling: what were you thinking of, Anthony?
  12. Can you just reduce the size of the window? Make sure that Window Size/Location Cache is unticked in CC Advanced so that window sizing is kept.
  13. That may be so, but if recovery in one go fails then why not try to recover in smaller chunks?
  14. Yup, I think the forensic bods will not magically recover overwritten data, but instead look at hiberfil.sys and pagefil.sys, and all those other hidden nooks and crannies that Windows uses to stitch you up......... The only true solution is as Burt says, hammer it into the ground.
  15. Where are you recovering to? If you are attempting to recover 70% of 22000 files that's over 15000 files, and if you're recovering to the same drive it's just about inevitable that you will be writing files on top of those waiting to be recovered. Don't do anything active on the data disk. Not all the files marked as excellent will be recoverable, as Recuva is software trying to interpret data and will not always be correct. But this should not stop a mass recovery. Recovering 15k+ files is an enormous task. Try recovering - to a separate folder on a different drive - in blocks of say 1k at a time. If you do recover 15k files then I don't envy whoever has to sort them out.
  16. Well, just type .jpg in the file name box to select all .jpg files. Then click on the State field to sort into excellent, etc. Then select as required. As for 1, this doesn't bother me much. As for 4, phew! You want a time machine.
  17. Well, 10 mins for 1% gives 1000 mins by my calculation, which is 16 hrs 40 mins. as it's now 11 hrs after your post the scan should be complete at around 4 pm UK time. It takes a long time to read 500 gb. That's 500 thousand million bytes. At 16 hrs that's still over 500 mb to read and process a minute. Deep scan is truly a giant step.
  18. Nothing wrong with mainframes, in my opinion, with proper man-sized operating systems. Even if you could clear all those filenames out of the MFT, the files would still be lying there on the disk.............. some for decades, aeons, forever...........
  19. Hi Klaus, I can see no reason why Recuva would delete any live files, and I have never heard of this. If you mean that Recuva listed some deleted files on your USB stick, and the files were missing later, then this is to be expected. Any deleted file can be overwritten by later file creation, or even by recovering other deleted files to the same USB stick, or by any file activity. Rgds.
  20. I think the guide is stand alone and opens in your browser. Someone else can be more accurate as I've not downloaded it. It can be run online from http://www.internetrotsyourbrain.com/recuvabeginnersguide/
  21. I don't know what you guys are doing. In all the years I have run Recuva it has never shown or found a file that was not already deleted. Hank, all those file names are irritating, but it's how Windows works. On a hard drive you can never actually 'clean' anything or go back to a previous state, only keep writing more and more stuff on top of what's already there. If you want a day's amusement seeing lots of file names try a deep scan.
  22. Yes it does. Clicking on the ? puts a ? next to the mouse pointer. When you then select an option such as OK or Cancel any help is displayed and the action is not performed. It isn't a great help, I agree.
  23. Please look at St B's other post for a response to his comments. You can delete all the files in one go by first trimming the file list by entering Pictures in the file name or Path box. You can then select all of them with the tick box at the top of the file list, or perhaps select a few thousand at a time, and then right click and select the Secure Delete Checked entry. If there are tens of thousands Recuva might choke, so I would advise doing it in more manageable portions. Remember that Recuva will not delete small files held in the MFT, and will not remove or rename the file names.
  24. If I have interpreted what you're saying correctly, then what you are saying is incorrect. The Secure Deletion box in Recuva Options specifies what kind of secure deletion is to be used. It does not delete anything. Highlighting a file name and then right-clicking brings up a menu on which Secure delete Highlighted/Checked can be selected. This does the deletion, and deletes according to the method seleted in options - with single pass overwrite being the default.
  25. Most peculiar. I haven't a clue at the moment.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.