Overview
Permanent Eraser allows you to securely delete files. When you normally delete your files in macOS / OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive. Beginning with OS X 10.3, Apple enhanced its security by introducing the Secure Empty Trash feature, which follows the U.S. DoD pattern of overwriting data seven times.
Permanent Eraser provides additional wiping methods such as the 3-pass DoE or 35-pass Gutmann algorithms. This utility overwrites your data multiple times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means.
- Implements the Gutmann Method via SRM to remove files
- Erases the files in your Trash
- Erases CD-RWs and DVD-RWs
- Erases files dropped on the application icon
- Provides a warning dialog before files are erased (Press the Option key to bypass this warning)
- Universal Binary
- Localized for English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, and Welsh
What's new in Permanent Eraser
- Requests authorization to erase write-protected files.
- Reduced the app size.
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- PPC 32
- Mac OS X 10.5.0 or later
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The reason why you should not do an erase (extra) on a SSD is it means a write with zero's. And every write is one nail on the coffin: the writes are wear. But in normal use SSDs have longer life than a HDD.