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How to use the Safe Place feature of ShredIt X
This features helps to ensure that a file is not accidentally shredded.
- The Safe Place feature creates a place that ShredIt will not shred, even if asked. This provides a place to keep files you never want shredded, especially not by accident.
- When creating a Safe Place folder, sure that you hav enamed it correctly. Name it Safe Place or SafePlace. Don't add any other charaters, since doing so will result in a folder that is not recognized by ShredIt as being a safe place.
- When you create a Safe Place folder, test it with a dummy file to make sure ShredIt will not shred the contents before putting important files in it.
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Requirements
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Instructions
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Create a folder called Safe Place on your computer. (Safe Place or SafePlace)
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Test it to ensure you named the Safe Place folder correctly.
- Create a new file of of any kind and drag it into the Safe Place folder.
- Then drag the new item from the Safe Place folder onto the ShredIt icon.
ShredIt should display a dialog box informing you that you need to move the item out of the Safe Place to shred it. Click the OK button and ShredIt will quit.
- When ShredIt has quit, check the contents of the Safe Place folder you created. Your test file should still be there.
If the test item is still in the Safe Place folder, then you have named the folder correctly and Safe Place is enabled. Delete the test file and continue.
If the test item is not in the Safe Place folder, then you have not named the folder correctly and the contents of the Safe Place are not safe from ShredIt. Repeat Step 2 until the test item is not shredded.
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Drag the items you want to protect against accidental shredding into the SafePlace folder. As long as the items are in the SafePlace folder, they are protected from accidental shredding.
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Notes
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- If you want to shred an item that is in a SafePlace folder, you must drag it out of the SafePlace folder first. If you want to shred a folder that contains a SafePlace folder, you must move the SafePlace folder out of the folder. If you want to shred a SafePlace folder, you must rename it something besides SafePlace.
- Important note: What distinguishes an item as "Not to be shredded" is its location in a folder named "Safe Place". If you move the item out of the Safe Place folder, it is no longer protected from accidental shredding. If you rename a Safe Place folder something else, its contents are no longer protected from accidental shredding.
- The SafePlace folder is designed to protect your data from being accidentally shredded. Don't move your System Folder there.
- An item within a SafePlace folder is protected from shredding no matter how far up or down in the directory structure the item is from the SafePlace folder.
Example
A Safe Place Folder is contained within Folder X. Folder X contains Folder A, File B and SafePlace Folder.
Folder X
Folder A
File B
Folder SafePlace
Folder X cannot be shredded because it contains a Safe Place Folder A. File B can be shredded. Folder A can be shredded.
Example
A Safe Place Folder contains Folder C and File D.
Folder Safe Place
Folder C
File D
Folder C and File D cannot be shredded because they are in a Safe Place.
- For more detailed information about ShredIt X for Mac OS X, refer to the
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