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I've been monitoring the performance of my system and see that from time to time when I delete a number of large files in Newsbin, there is lots of disk activity. I understand that is Newsbin overwriting the file before it deletes it. I personally don't need this function and would like to reduce the I/O on my disks. Is there a way to turn off the disk overwriting?

Thanks.

I believe this is MS, not Newsbin. Newsbin tried to do the fastwrite mode, but it turned out after all this time it wasn't happening because you need admin privileges to do a write without the wipe. I'm unsure where things stand at the moment, I know if Quade had his druthers he'd prefer the wipeless delete. If you run Newsbin as Admin, it probably works, but not recommended.

DT

I am very confused. Lots of other programs delete files without overwriting them. I watched the file I deleted with Newsbin in Windows explorer and the name was changed to delete.(something) and then disappeared. Also, when I delete a large file in Windows explorer, it just disappears, or all of them disappear. Newsbin is doing something out of the ordinary to get this behavior. Perhaps a different system call to the file system is needed.

Ok, if you cannot stop the overwriting, please give us an option to move deleted files to the wastebasket. That, as a matter of fact, is even a better option. Every once in a while, I delete the wrong file.

I'll add it to my todo list. You're right about the blanking. I'll consider making it optional.