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.

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.

As deleting a file does not erase the actual data of the file. Until that space is overwritten by a new file or data, it can be restored easily using undelete software which are specially designed to recover such deleted data. This means that the data is still available on the disk and is liable to data theft. Therefore, after deleting files, you need to run such a program to ensure that the data of those files are completely erased.

Remo Shredder will completely erase files from your disk, by overwriting the portion on the hard drive that was previously allocated to the files several times without the possibility of recovery by any file recovery software or hardware methods.

Steps to be followed to wipe unused disk space using Remo Shredder

Step – 1

Launch the Remo Shredder Main application either from start menu or from desktop shortcut. As soon as the application is launched, it starts loading the drives in the left tree pane as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Application Main Window

Please Note: You can press Esc button to cancel loading

Step – 2

To shred free disk space, click on ‘Shred free disk space’ button at the toolbar or launch from Shred -> Shred free disk space in Menu bar. As you click the button, a window to select drives is displayed as shown in figure b.

Figure b: Select logical drive

Step – 3

Select a logical drive on which free disk space has to be shredded and click on OK button to proceed

The software starts overwriting the free disk space with selected patterns as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Progress Window

Once the Shredding process is completed, a confirmation message pops up as shown below.