There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB ...

Deleting a file means it should be gone for good. That's why most people assume that when you delete a file and then remove ...

How to delete files securely and completely in Windows 11 using SDelete Your email has been sent Meeting DoD standards for securely deleting files in Windows 11 requires the use of a special ...

You need to know how to delete downloaded files on an Android device before your phone’s performance starts to suffer, or you literally have no place to put ...

Many people don’t bother to delete old files on their PC and so they keep accumulating, only to give you a headache afterwards in terms of storage problems. It’s always good practice to delete old ...

In this post, we will show you how to delete one, multiple, or all Google Drive files at once and also how to delete files permanently in Google Drive. Google Drive is one of the most used cloud ...

If you want to delete files older than X days automatically in Windows 11 and Windows 10, here is how you can do that. It is possible to delete all the files older than a specific number of days from ...

Duplicate-file-finding programs expect you to manually check each file for deletion. That’s not practical for Edward Derbyshire, who has “121,000 duplicates” to delete. Before I tell you how to delete ...

Mark Gadzikowski discovered a bug where Peak software erased files from his hard drive. He writes: "The flaw is in the routine which deletes temp files when the program terminates. The flawed routine ...