mingsijie / permadelete

Permanently shreds files, easily.

Permadelete

Permadelete is an easy to use and beautiful app for shredding files and folders permanently.

• Download the latest release and give it a try.
• Read this short tutorial about 3 fun ways to shred files permanently using Permadelete.
• And if you are the curious type, you can read about how Permadelete works.
• We welcome everyone who wants to help us in any way they can 😁 Please contact me if you are interested.

Note: It needs .Net Framework 4.5 to run which you can download here.

Resources

Here are a list of projects and articles that have been very helpful in developing Permadelete:

• Secure Delete by @bitbeans
• Data evaopration on SSDs by Sam Bowne
• The urban legend of multipass hard disk overwrite and DoD 5220-22-M by Brian Smithson

How to build

• Open Permadelete in Visual Studio
• Create a Keys.cs file in /Publish beside Installer.iss and paste this code into the file:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Permadelete
{
   public class Keys
   {
       public const string SENTRY_API_DSN = "";
       public const string DROPBOX_API_KEY = "";
   }
}

• Press CTRL + F5

Special Thanks

I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me in developing and testing Permadelete, I'd also like to thank these awesome companies who have donated a license of their invaluable products to the project:

• Icons8.com for beautiful icons.
• Sentry.io for analytics and crash reports.

Contact

You can contact via my email: [email protected]

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