Permadelete : a file shredding app

When a file is deleted, only a reference to the location of the file is deleted. In other words, the file system just “forgets” about the existence of the file. But the actually data, the 0’s and 1’s, still remain on the disk. They will eventually be replaced by other files and data, but this can take a long long time and during this time recovery softwares can be used to recover the “deleted” files. But file shredding apps like Permadelete make sure the files you delete can’t be recovered. If you are the curious type, you can read more about how Permadelete works.

After you downloaded the latest release and gave it a try, You might also want to read this short tutorial about 3 fun ways to shred files permanently using Permadelete.

View Project On GitHub

Note: It needs .Net Framework 4.5 to run which you can download here.

Resources

Here are a list of projects and articles that have been very helpful in developing Permadelete:

• Secure Delete by @bitbeans
• Data evaopration on SSDs by Sam Bowne
• The urban legend of multipass hard disk overwrite and DoD 5220-22-M by Brian Smithson

Special Thanks

I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me in developing and testing Permadelete, I’d also like to thank these awesome companies who have donated a license of their invaluable products to the project:

• Icons8.com for beautiful icons.
• Sentry.io for analytics and crash reports.

Contact

You can contact via my email: muhammad-azeez@outlook.com

A Muhammad Azeez project.