Looking forward to some serious assistance. Unless you know, what you are doing and what kind of PLIST file you are trying to delete, you should not delete them. Therefore, if we want a definitive conclusion about the safety, then No, it is not 100 safe to delete these PLIST files from your system. I need a no ******** answer by someone who really knows what he is talking about, taking into consideration the things I have mentioned here. Deleting system files will prevent the application from launching or working properly.
SECURLY REMOVE FILES FROM MAC HOW TO
I know how to enable or disable it, however it doesn't tell me what the current setting currently is. Another frustrating thing is, there is no way for me to find out the current setting. However, I later read a poster on stackexchange saying he was able to recover the data.Īnother important point seems to be that the SSD needs to be TRIM enabled. But it will not solve the problem if you have not encrypted in the beginning though and you are just finding out this information now.Īlso, some information mentions that recovering data from SSDs is very difficult so you do not need to worry about it. It is frustrating that they mention that you should encrypt it and that would solve the problem. But if Apple removed the GUI for the diskutil, the terminal command line would be no different and would also similarly be deemed ineffective. I've read threads saying that you need to run diskutil secure erase and that this will wipe it clean. Then we find out that Apple has removed this option since they deemed it ineffective.
I've read threads saying that you can secure erase your SSD drive by command+R booting and using the Disk Utility and then selecting the "security options" for a secure erase. Reading online about this, there is numerous conflicting and contradicting information which makes getting to the bottom of this more difficult. Having used DoD and Peter Gutmann secure erase before on conventional HDD drives it was quite a surprise to find out that the same secure wipe method is unavailable or ineffective on an SSD.