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  "path": "/t/is-editing-and-renaming-a-file-an-effective-way-to-wipe-its-original-data-from-your-drive/38633#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T19:49:14.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Say I have a text or image file that I don’t want on my drive anymore, but I have an SSD, so there’s no way to effectively remove it. Can I remove its data by editing and saving it, say by deleting all the text for a text file, or opening an image in an editor and covering its old contents with something else, like a black brush or another pasted image, and then renaming it to obscure what it originally was?",
  "title": "Is editing and renaming a file an effective way to wipe its original data from your drive?"
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