![]() ![]() ![]() You can do this in Disk Utility, for example, the Apple ute that sits in the Utilities folder in Applications. The space they occupy then becomes listed as free space and if you need to save a new file, or install a, large app, import a movie etc and it needs that space, the file will ‘overwrite’ that space, making whatever file existed there before irretrievable.įor this reason, various software (or the ‘Secure Empty Trash option on Mac that still have non SD hard drives) will write zeroes over where files were to make them irretrievable. The usual process is that when you Empty Trash, the links to the files are obliterated, but the files themselves are there, hidden. Macs typically don’t actually delete the file itself. ![]() File purgatory - Disk Drill 3 is the kind of software that can almost literally save your life if you have deleted files, or something went wrong with computer and files have disappeared. ![]()
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