Is it possible to shred files from my iPod?
For music lovers from different parts of the part, iPod will likely remain the preferred choice. There are various reasons for the popularity of this amazing media player. Being easily portable, easy to use, well designed and completely durable, iPods have become the most popular portable music players now-a-days. Designed and marketed by Apple, the product line-up includes the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the video-capable iPod Nano, and the compact iPod Shuffle.
Need for shredding file
Many users are in a misconception that by just deleting a file you can permanently get rid of it. Most of the information you delete can still be recovered by using an undelete software. Here arises the concept of shredding. If you are looking to permanently delete file(s) beyond recovery, then Remo shredder can do it for you. Remo Shredder offers safe erasing of data beyond recovery by overwriting the data several times based on the shredding method selected.
How to shred files from iPod?
Download and install Remo Shredder to PC, which is healthy system and has the best of hardware components, plug the iPod into the computers USB port and then proceed ahead with the process of shredding the files.
Steps for shredding file(s)
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 drive 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.
Please Note: REMO shredder does not support shredding files from iPod Touch.
