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Originally Posted by HarryT
Shaggy,
It is having been an IT professional for more years than I care to remember that makes me all too painfully aware of just how damned hard it really is to "delete" information from a hard disk. If you think that it is "trivial", then I most respectfully invite you to do a little more research into the subject. You will find that it is distinctly non-trivial, I assure you.
I work for a company which routinely deals with highly confidential information, and believe me, "clicking the delete button" doesn't cut it if you actually want to wipe the data.
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Shaggy's right - it's trivial. Not in the context of dealing with confidential information, but rather, in the context of the ordinary user who sells or transfers his copy of an ebook to another person in a casual sale. No rational person will bother to clean up his computer of all the various incarnations of the ebook, unless someone comes up with an all in one "sell your ebook and clean out the backup copies" freeware program for ebookworms. And then, only if it indexes all your ebooks automagically.
I know there are a few compulsively organized types out there, who know where the backup files are, and all versions thereof, but the rest of us keep our computers about as organized as most guys keep their sock drawers. We aren't going to spend our time dealing with it, except on an as needed basis, taking what's on top, and when we find two socks that match, that's that.