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Originally Posted by twowheels
No, it really doesn't. If you read the bleachbit documentation in the "Limits of shredding files and wiping free disk space" section you'll see that there are many ways that data will be left behind, regardless of which method you're using...
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/doc...iles-wipe-disk
Unless you're guarding state secrets or doing something highly illegal I'd suggest that neither mode of wiping is necessary -- just set up a periodically scheduled wipe of free space if it makes you more comfortable -- which would also handle (some of) the other issues described in that section.
(I say some of, because none of these methods can wipe the sectors marked as bad and remapped by the hard-drive) |
Thanks twowheels. Since I was figuring I was wanting to get rid of the data (on a computer I was taking to the recycle center) I never even considered the "wipe" option. I'll check into it.