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Faster deletes
robg adds: Be aware that secure deleting takes a bit of time...
Depending on your level of paranoia, a single-pass overwrite (
I wrote an AppleScript to delete files in one pass and called it "Tear It Up" just to remind me that what it's doing is quick but not exactly industrial strength. It also beeps once when it's done, which is not a bad idea for a time-consuming script. I haven't used Automator, but isn't there a way to add an AppleScript
Faster deletes
Good idea... couldn't see an Automator action for beeping, but in this case you can just add a line to the end of the shell script (i.e. on a new line after "done"): osascript -e 'beep 1'
or osascript -e 'say "Files Deleted"'
Faster deletes
Depending on your level of paranoia, a single-pass overwrite (
Chances are that when running srm on a journalling file system (like newer installations of HFS+ with journalling turned on) it won't matter how many passes you make. The only difference would be time (there is little-to-no added security value). So, if you have journalling turned on, but still want to use srm, I see little reason not to use -s. Of course, I have not verified that OS X's srm doesn't somehow magically account for all the implications of journalling, but I would be surprised if it does. Can anyone speak more intelligently on this? |
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