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<blockquote data-quote="McBie" data-source="post: 1220527" data-attributes="member: 54417"><p>When you do a " Secure Empty Trash ", the OS will overwrite the deleted files with a random pattern, so they can not be recovered.</p><p>This writing of the pattern takes time and depending on the number of items in the trash, and the size of the files in the trash this will take time ..... a lot of time.</p><p></p><p>My suggestion ..... let it finish ....</p><p></p><p>@ Biffo ..... Turning your computer of when something is not going as expected is so ..... windows. Not good advice.</p><p></p><p>Cheers ... McBie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McBie, post: 1220527, member: 54417"] When you do a " Secure Empty Trash ", the OS will overwrite the deleted files with a random pattern, so they can not be recovered. This writing of the pattern takes time and depending on the number of items in the trash, and the size of the files in the trash this will take time ..... a lot of time. My suggestion ..... let it finish .... @ Biffo ..... Turning your computer of when something is not going as expected is so ..... windows. Not good advice. Cheers ... McBie [/QUOTE]
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