Thread: File shredders

Hi all!!

I'd like a little advice if somebody has the time,

I'm a relative beginner to programing, my only real project being a little xor encryptor, but i
fancied a go at writing a file shredder which has proved to be a bit complicated.

Is this kind of thing wildly out of reach for me at the moment, and if it is can anybody recommend me some good projects to learn with. If its not that difficult can somebody give some links to some helpfull sites?

thanx to all!

Eh I think all a file shredder does is essentially open a file and overwrite each and every byte of the contents with either random or blank information.

Windows compresses some files, and they are not straight forward to delete like that.

Well , i thought it would be a simple little project, like what Frobozz was basically saying
but i'm having trouble with it. Word files are fine but the real stumbling block is picture files
which seem to be a nightmare. I can open the files but cant 'fget' any characters. Do i just need to go off and go into picture formatting with more detail or is this a programming problem??

well
maybe i've turned two pages at once,but if i open a picture file in notepad
i get a long list of stuff from the ascII table and from basic reading from wikipedia
and a few simple tutorials i never came across anything suggesting otherwise.

You're going to tell me i need top open the file in binary aren't you?!?