AppCleaner VS SDelete

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AppCleaner mentions (303)

• Software for maintaining my macbook

  The only thing you need is AppCleaner. https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/. Source: 5 months ago

• A collection of useful Mac Apps

  AppCleaner - Price: Free Small application allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. (Raycast can do this too). Source: 10 months ago

• Microsoft Teams will not open on my macbook pro; I keep getting this message. Tried deleting and redownloading as well. Am I doing something wrong? I have an important job interview on teams I need it to work for :/

  You may also want to download an app to remove applications and use it to remove any major apps you have including MS Office, Teams, Acrobat, Photoshop, etc. Source: 10 months ago

• Help a Windows Guy Help a Mac Guy

  If that doesn’t work, AppCleaner generally does a good job of uninstalling apps too. Source: 10 months ago

• New to MacOS, is AppCleaner safe?

  Just make sure you’re downloading from the official site: AppCleaner. Source: 10 months ago

SDelete mentions (25)

• Keep your files safe. What can happen if you throw away a defective hard drive?

  What lessons can we take away from my story? They are, in fact, quite simple and obvious: merely deleting files and quick formatting is usually not enough when disposing of or selling hard drives. For more assurance, it’s better to perform a full format (in modern operating systems, of course). And for the truly paranoid, there’s the good old console utility SDelete from the Sysinternals suite or a tool named... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Hyper V VM full disk, won’t boot

  I assume you were using a dynamically expanding disk - if so just note it won't dynamically contract just by deleting files. To shrink the drive you will likely need to run sdelete -z on the drive inside the VM to clear the free space, then edit and compact the VHDX. You will need to be able to boot the VM to run sdelete though so you'll need to temporarily move other files off the drive, or move the VM files to... Source: 11 months ago

• Does formatting a drive remove bitlocker encryption from formatted data?

  You can always download sdelete https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete and do an overwrite pass just to be safe. It'll take a while but you can do other things while it's running. Source: 11 months ago

• Bitwarden backups

  My understanding is that it doesn't completely solve it. I don't have time to dig up an authoritative source for this claim — hopefully this superuser comment will suffice. I believe that you can achieve something close to a secure erase by filling up your SSD to 100% capacity with data before deleting; the utility sdelete supposedly does this when using the -c option. Source: about 1 year ago

• Wiping HDD in windows. Which program to use?

  Check out sdelete from the MS sysinternals utilities suite: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete. Source: about 1 year ago