Secure deletion: Canceled files

When canceling a secure deletion, the last file will not be deleted (but is unusable).

Is this a feature (to secure delete the file completely in a second attempt) or a "bug"?

I'm curious what you think the solution would be here. Secure delete involves writing over the existing file repeatedly, before deleting it. Once Opus has started writing over the file, there's no way to "undo" that. Well, one way would be to make a backup of the file first, but I'll leave it up to you to work out why that wouldn't be a good solution :slight_smile:

I noticed that after using an external secure deletion tool, which deletes the last file even the deletion-process has been canceled.

It was just a question...

I'm not sure this is a good idea. If you delete the file without completing the "secure" part of the operation, then the file won't have been securely deleted, which is what you originally wanted. If you finish the secure erasure first then the cancel won't happen immediately, and it may be that you did want to cancel immediately.

Which I answered :slight_smile: