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ShredIt X 6.0.2

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Permanently delete files from your hard disk. Shareware ($24.95)

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ShredIt X permanently deletes files from your hard disk. Files can be recovered from your computer trash. Protect your privacy with this easy to use file shredder and hard drive cleaner that will secure delete files so they can't be recovered. Whether you want to clean a hard drive or erase a file, ShredIt for Mac OS X is the computer privacy software for the job. Wipe files, disk free space, a hard drive, external drives, USB Flash and more. It comes with simple instructions, built in safety features, DoD, DoE, NSA, Gutmann standards cotandards compliance and online tutorials.

What's New

Version 6.0.2:

Maintenance Release

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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ShredIt X User Discussion (Write a Review)

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neimen commented on 27 Nov 2011

PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED USERS: note that this version of the app seems to implement a new two-field registration scheme. a single (old) registration code no longer works.

[Version 6.0.2]

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Trashie reviewed on 12 Jan 2011

Pretty much works perfect and the schedular is great you can leave it to do a free space wipe during the night while you sleep. Yeah good app and does what it says on the box.

I tested it with some recovery software it does mess up recovery. You run this those files are really gone forever.

BTW I see a unix command put here NEVER USE THIS COMMAND unless you know about unix. That one is a crazy command! :)

I am not sure on OSX rm does a secure delete? Don't you need to pipe to a program like shred/gshred like on Linux/BSD?

[Version 5.8.7]

Rob commented on 29 Nov 2006

Get On My Command contextual menu and choose delete files 7 up to 32 times. You can delete any files or folders anytime.

[Version 5.7]

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Sanjinko tipped on 29 Nov 2006

To permanently delete files/folders from your HD: 1)Open Terminal 2)cd FILE/FOLDER PATH 3)sudo rm -rv * Then you type in your admin password, and chosen data is gone...forever.

[Version 5.7]

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edenwaith commented on 04 Dec 2006

If you have Mac OS 10.3 or later, you can also use the built in secure remove tool (srm) from the command line.

srm -fvrz some_file

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beLine replied on 02 Jun 2007

Only runs DoD 7-pass wipe. This can do considerably more, and the fact that you can schedule free space wipes is even better, as you can wipe space over, and over, and over... bye bye...

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scottishwildcat replied on 22 Apr 2008

If you believe that, then I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken... however, using srm instead of rm will do the trick.

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Burning Thumb Software (developer) replied on 20 Jan 2009

ShredIt X has many important features, like Safe Place, not found on the command line. We have been doing this for 15 years (since Mac OS 7) and trust me there is nothing worse than the sinking feeling of realizing you just shredded something by accident. This is just one example.

Finally, if the command line is for you that's great, but for many Mac OS X users a GUI is the way to go - there is a good reason for GUI's and that is why many folks pay $179 for Mac OS X upgrades instead of installing the free open source Darwin ;-)

+228

St00pid-M0nk3y reviewed on 22 Sep 2006

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks. Great app! :)

[Version 5.6.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 29 Apr 2005

Shredit seems to create as many 1.95gb files on your HD as it can before it even BEGINS to shred - this takes DAYS...! Isn't there any program which can do this faster and without reducing your HD space to 0?

[Version 5.5.1]

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maconnect commented on 22 Jan 2006

Yes, it's called "Finder". It's not on macupdate, but I'm sure you know it :D

Finder: "File -> Secure empty trash"

Virion replied on 29 Nov 2006

maconnect:
Sounds more like he's referring to shredding free space, which requires filling free space first. It's different from shredding only the trash and should technically wipe anything in that 'empty' area but will also take a long time if the free space is, obviously, quite large.

Anonymous reviewed on 29 Nov 2004

what does it mean to shred free space?

[Version 5.5.1]

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Anonymous commented on 08 Dec 2004

Shredding free space is the process of writing over the "unused" portions of your hard drive. Just because a current file isn't occupying space on a particular location on your drive, doesn't mean that data still doesn't exist from previous information. Shredding free space will also write over the unused portions of your drive, which is useful if you want to clean up your drive from any old information.

Scott_R replied on 21 Jan 2006

Just to clarify: normally, when you delete a file, the OS doesn't actually *erase* it. The data is still there but the pointers to it are removed, so the computer "doesn't know" it's there and will write new data in that space--some day. If your drive falls into the wrong hands, the orignal data in that free space can be recovered (that's what an "undelete" program does). It's like going to a library and throwing away a book's card in the card catalog (see how old I am?) but leaving the book on the shelf. If you know where to look, you can find it. Erasing free space writes meaningless data over space that's not designated as containing data, thereby making the information inaccessible.

Anonymous reviewed on 30 Aug 2004

Superfluous rip off!!!

Panther has an option of Delete or Secure Delete which does the same thing.........for FREE!

[Version 5.5.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 12 Aug 2004

According to info posted on ShredIt website, it has also the ability to overwrite free space - I don't know of any in-built ability of Panther to do that. I have not yet used or tested ShredIt, but I am considering it, and I feel that this element should also be taken into consideration in order to evalute fairly. Unless somebody can recommend a better tool for overwriting free space?

[Version 5.5]

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Anonymous commented on 10 Jan 2005

PGP 7.0.3, though maybe not with Panther.

Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jul 2004

if you just want to delete the files without moving them to the trash, you can use srm in terminal

[Version 5.5]

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Anonymous commented on 30 Jul 2004

We develop Utility software for users who need the functionality and want it to be easier to use than typing Unix commands into the Command Line Interface.

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Anonymous commented on 11 Oct 2004

Then, Mr Developer, you got a severely limited demographic of some of the lamest people on the planet - which is about the only group you can hope to impress.

Your product is a disgrace and so are you. You are a charlatan.

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