I want to delete, not undelete

Using TestDisk to undelete files
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jidanni
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Joined: 09 Apr 2023, 08:39

I want to delete, not undelete

#1 Post by jidanni »

I want to delete, not undelete. Alas, all I can choose is:

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Use Left arrow to go back, Right to change directory, h to hide Alternate Data Stream
q to quit, : to select the current file, a to select all files
C to copy the selected files, c to copy the current file
No, I cannot delete the normal way:

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ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000  size: 4096   usa_ofs: 0  usa_count: 0: Invalid argument
Corrupt index block signature: vcn 0
# \rm -rf  xxxx/BADDIR
rm: cannot remove 'xxxx/BADDIR': Directory not empty
# find xxxx/BADDIR
Input/output error
By the way, q is mislabeled. It doesn't quit. It just goes back one view or climbs up one directory.
There is no quit command.

recuperation
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Joined: 04 Jan 2019, 09:48
Location: Hannover, Deutschland (Germany, Allemagne)

Re: I want to delete, not undelete

#2 Post by recuperation »

Testdisk is not a program to delete files but to recover information.

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