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Thanks remy so much for your reply,
Now if I need to overwrite the current file with zeros or garbage, is there
any file management function/api that I should use to establish such task.

BR

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Martin C" <martinc@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > Is there a way where I can delete a file and make it
> > unrecoverable, what I am trying to do it to secure the
> > deleting of my files so no one can recover
> > it back by any file recovery tool...
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> Deleting a file simply marks the occupied disk space as being available
for
> use by the file system for new files, but the physical content of the
> original file still exists until it is overwritten later (the same applies
> with memory as well).  The only way to do what you ask is to do what other
> file shredding utilities already do - simply overwrite the current file
> content with zeros (or garbage) prior to deleting the file.  That way, if
> any file recovery tool tries to recover the file, all it will get back is
> meaningless data.
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> Gambit
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