Recovered Files - gslusher

Look a bit further. I searched on "recovered" and found the article below. The problem may be that you searched on "recovered FILES" and it is listed as "Recovered ITEMS." Dont get too fancy with searches and don't give up so easily. It took me less than 20 seconds to go to the Apple site, click on Support, click on Mac OS, type in "recovered," click on the search button, look down the list, then open this article.

Mac OS X: "Recovered Items" in the Trash can be safely deleted

After starting up in Mac OS X, sometimes you might find a "Recovered Items" folder in the Trash. Don't worry, you can safely delete this folder.

This folder contains items that are periodically flushed from your computer's temporary directory (/tmp)

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Tuesday, July 04 2006 @ 06:42 PM PDT

Recovered Files - treybomb1234

The most disconcerting thing I have observed is that 'secure-deleted' files reappear on restart. For me, these include things like bank details, on-line purchases and confidential correspondence - the very last things I want the computer to hold onto ready for any snooper to find. Until Apple cures this bug in Tiger, this Applescript will conveniently serve to replace a manual delete of the recovered files on start-up, but it doesn't cure the real problem that, unless I restart immediately after a 'secure delete', the system obviously does NOT delete them but holds them available for ever and a day and presents them 'on a plate' to the next person to restart my computer - and without admin checks.

AlanD

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Wednesday, August 02 2006 @ 12:46 PM PDT