BleachBit 6.0.4 fixes secure wiping that skipped clusters on Windows

Sep 09, 2026 - 07:45
BleachBit 6.0.4 fixes secure wiping that skipped clusters on Windows

The open source cleaner BleachBit reached version 6.0.4 this week, erasing caches, browser traces, and files on Windows, Linux, and now macOS. If you shredded a sensitive file on Windows with an earlier build, parts of it may still sit on the disk where the wipe missed. Fragmentation is the ordinary case, since Windows scatters a file across noncontiguous clusters whenever it cannot find one open run large enough to hold it. The release does … More

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