Step by step instruction for Safe Folder Shredding mode

How to erase files and folders and make sure that nobody can recover them for ever. How to move files to another storage device and erase all traces.

Safe Folder Shredding Mode

To run the folder shredding operation you should:

1. Activate the “Safe Folder Shredding” mode
2. Select a folder to be shredded
3. Execute the shredding process

shredder main window mode2 Safe Folder Shredding Procedure Description

Open the actions list and select the “Safe Folder Shredding” action.

shredder mode select2 Safe Folder Shredding Procedure Description

shredder second button Safe Folder Shredding Procedure DescriptionTo activate the “Safe Folder Shredding” mode
you can also press the second button of the program menu.

Select folder to be shredded

Choose the hard drive or another location and select the folder name you wish to be shredded.

Execute the folder shredding

To start shredding press the Execute button. The process will be started and the progress indicator will be shown.

shredder progress Safe Folder Shredding Procedure Description

Note: The already processed files are shredded forever !

In order to stop the shredding operation, you should press the Stop button. The program will ask you to wait for the end of the current operation.

shredder progress stop Safe Folder Shredding Procedure Description

When the current operation is finished, the confirmation dialogue will be displayed.
shredder confirmation Safe Folder Shredding Procedure Description
When the shredder process is finished, you will get one of the messages:

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Operation completed successfully    Operation completed with errors

In case of errors you will be able to see the errors log. You can select the option to see only error messages or the whole process messages in the log result window. Errors are marked with red color.

shredder error log Safe Folder Shredding Procedure Description

Some of frequent errors:

Cannot open file (The file was blocked with another application and shredder can not process it.) Please close the application which is using this file and try again.