Is it possible to shred files from my digital camera?
Digital cameras have revolutionized the world of photography. Unlike the traditional cameras, the digital cameras have an inbuilt computer that records images electronically. Being one of the most remarkable inventions, modern digital cameras include sophisticated features that are very useful. Powerful Optical Zoom, megapixel image resolution, comprehensive image processing, high resolution, built-in playback, memory cards and many others.
Digital camera memory is an essential part of digital photography equipment. Generally, Digital cameras internal memory does not support storing huge amount of pictures/videos, thus the digital camera memory cards are utilized. These memory cards store all the pictures and videos taken with the digital camera. If your card is full of capacity and when you need more space you can delete erase/delete pictures from it. On the other hand if your digital camera performance becomes sluggish, you can format the memory card. However, a memory card should be formatted several times a year for good performance.
Erasing/deleting images or just formatting the memory card, does not actually delete the data on it. If you are planning to get rid of your digital camera or memory card, you will need to permanently delete the images on it. Remo Shredder can help you shred files from a digital camera memory card beyond recovery. REMO Shredder will completely erase files from your memory card, without the possibility of recovery by any practical software or hardware methods. Select the data you wish to shred, select your shred standard and the data is gone forever.
Step-by-step guide on how to shred files from digital camera memory card
Step 1: Launch the Remo Shredder either by selecting the program from the Start Menu, or by double clicking on the desktop shortcut. Once the REMO Shredder software is launched, it starts loading the drives on the left tree pane, as shown in Figure a.
Figure a: Application main window
Step 2: Select the memory card that contains the file(s) to be shredded. After selecting the files to be shredded, double click on them to add them into the ’shredding zone’ or drag and drop them into the shredding zone. The application adds the selected file(s) into shredding zone as shown in Figure b.
Figure b: Selected data in Shredding zone
Step 3: Remo Shredder utility provides nine shredding methods and they are classified into different levels for erasing the data which are based on the security patterns. To select the shredding methods, click on the “Shredding Options” button in the toolbar. This drops down the different shredding methods, and the user has to select any one of these methods, as shown in Figure c.
Figure c: Shredding Methods
Step 4: Once you select the shredding method, click on the Shred file(s) and folder(s) button. As you click on Shred file(s) and folder(s) button, all the selected file(s) and folder(s) in the shredding zone will be overwritten by different pattern depending on shredding method selected and once the process is completed a message would pop up intimating the same.
The data once erased with Remo Shredder cannot be recovered back using any data recovery software.
