Everything about File deletion

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: File deletionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: PRINCIPLES OF DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING SYSTEM OF AUTOMATED FILE DELETION AND CONTROL FOR WINDOWS OSInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: deleted fileThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Capability Based Outsourced Data Access Control with Assured File Deletion and Efficient Revocation with Trust Factor in Cloud ComputingCited 25 times
5. Go sideways: Data erasureA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Shred (Unix)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Capability Based Outsourced Data Access Control with Assured File Deletion and Efficient Revocation with Trust Factor in Cloud Computing

  Shweta Kaushik, Charu Gandhi · 2020 · International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing · 25 citations

• Explanatory machine learning for justified trust in human-AI collaboration: Experiments on file deletion recommendations

  Kyra Göbel, Cornelia Niessen, Sebastian Seufert · 2022 · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 16 citations

• Implementing secure file deletion in NANDbased block devices with internal buffers

  Ilhoon Shin · 2012 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 6 citations

• Leveraging Journaling File System for Prompt Secure Deletion on Interlaced Recording Drives

  Shuo-Han Chen, Kuo-Hao Huang · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing · 6 citations

• A File-Oriented Fast Secure Deletion Strategy for Shingled Magnetic Recording Drives

  Shuo-Han Chen, Chun-Feng Wu, Ming-Chang Yang · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 6 citations

• Enabling Efficient Random Data Insertion/Deletion on Block-based File Systems

  Yi-Han Lien, Yi-Hua Chen, Po-Chun Huang · 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 1 citations

• Forensic analysis of video data deletion and recovery in Honeywell surveillance file system

  Jinhee Yoon, Sungjae Hwang · 2026 · Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation · 1 citations

• ACAFD: Secure and Scalable Access Control with Assured File Deletion for Outsourced Data in Cloud

  School of Information Technology and Engineering, VIT University, Katpadi, Vellore, Tamil Nadu 632014, India, Sudha Senthilkumar, Madhu Viswanatham · 2014 · Journal of ICT Research and Applications · 1 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• PRINCIPLES OF DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING SYSTEM OF AUTOMATED FILE DELETION AND CONTROL FOR WINDOWS OS

  S. V. Pavlyk, O. L. Lashko, D. O. Kushnir · 2024 · Computer systems and network · 1 citations

• THE ANALYSIS OF FILE DELETION MECHANISMS ON SSD DRIVES

  senior teacher of the Training and Scientific Center “Information Security”, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin. 620002, Sverdlovsk region, Ekaterinburg, Mira street, 19. E-mail:d.v.kutc@urfu.ru, D.V. Kuts, S.V. Porshnev · 2022 · Journal of the Ural Federal District. Information security · 0 citations

• Innovative Approaches to Data Recovery after Formatting and File Deletion

  Stanislav Yermolov · 2025 · International Journal of Latest Research in Engineering and Technology (IJLRET) · 0 citations

• Design of Aged-Based Automatic Deletion Function for File Security

  Seung-Ju Jang · 2023 · Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering · 0 citations

• PRINCIPLES OF DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING SYSTEM OF AUTOMATED FILE DELETION AND CONTROL FOR WINDOWS OS

  S. V. Pavlyk, O. L. Lashko, D. O. Kushnir · 2024 · Computer systems and network · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• deleted fileDhanyal Research Committee · 2026
• Deleted file 34343Deleted file 34343
• 📕Get Started with Microsoft PowerPoint 97! - Illustrated InteractiveMac Mendelsohn · 1997

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🔗 Related topics

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• Crypto-shredding Crypto-shredding or crypto erase (cryptographic erasure) is the practice of rendering encrypted data unusable by deliberately deleting or overwriting the…
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• Undeletion Undeletion is a feature for restoring computer files which have been removed from a file system by file deletion. Deleted data can be recovered on many…
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