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Move the majority of the chunk of text to our Data Collection Policy Trac Wiki page. The dialog will only detail general instructions, like how Windows' Problem Reports and Solutions dialog works.

10:23 DataCollectionPolicy edited by Joel

Document how to change the parts of the report uploaded (diff)

10:15 DataCollectionPolicy edited by Joel

(diff)

10:14 DataCollectionPolicy created by Joel

Initial draft

10:05 WikiStart edited by Joel

Add our Data Collection Policy (diff)

09:53 Changeset [2678] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBoxClientTool.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBoxNotifier.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Eraser.BlackBox.csproj
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Plugin.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.en.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.it.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.nl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.pl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.resx

Implement a Client Tool plugin to show the BlackBox? Report Manager in the Tools menu.

09:44 Changeset [2677] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.en.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.it.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.nl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.pl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Strings.resx

New strings.

09:41 Changeset [2676] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBoxNotifier.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Eraser.BlackBox.csproj
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Plugin.cs

Instead of hooking the OnGUIIdle event of the application, we should implement the INotifiable interface defined recently to push notifications to the user. This will prevent the dialog from springing up when we show the erasure confirmation dialog when invoked from the shell context menu.

09:37 Changeset [2675] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser/Strings.en.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser/Strings.it.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser/Strings.nl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser/Strings.pl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser/Strings.resx

New strings.

09:34 Changesets [2673-2674] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser/MainForm.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser/MainForm.Designer.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser/MainForm.cs

Implement the INotificationSink interface so that we can display notifications pushed by plugins.

09:32 Changeset [2672] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Plugins/Eraser.Plugins.csproj
trunk/eraser/Eraser.Plugins/ExtensionPoints/INotifier.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.Plugins/Host.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.Plugins/Registrars/NotifierRegistrar.cs
trunk/eraser/Version.cs.in

Define an INotifier interface as well as a NotifierRegistrar? class to allow us to define Notifier plugins which can display notifications. Bump the assembly version numbers since we have an API change.

08:09 Changeset [2671] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser/Program.ConsoleProgram.cs

Don't crash when the user enters an invalid action on the command line.

08:03 Changeset [2670] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBoxReport.cs

When we are trying to delete a "corrupt" report, handle an UnauthorizedAccessException? since we have users who run Eraser as another user. In this situation, the current user does not have permissions to access the report, so just raise an exception that the report is invalid. When an appropriate user is running, we'll prompt them again.

07:51 Changeset [2669] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBox.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBoxReport.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBoxReportUploader.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Eraser.BlackBox.csproj

Split the BlackBox?.cs file into smaller and more manageable parts.

07:45 Changeset [2668] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util.Native/OpenHandle.cpp

On top of checking the return ode of NtQuerySystemInformation?, also do a sanity check on the return value before using it.

07:44 Changeset [2667] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util/ExtensionClasses/SharingViolationException.cs

Make SharingViolationException? inherit from FileLoadException? since that is what .NET would throw if a file cannot be opened.

07:41 Changeset [2666] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/6.0
branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser/Program.cs

Merged revision(s) 2661 from trunk/eraser: Handle the situation where creating a new mutex when starting the application would cause an UnauthorizedAccessException?. I can't figure out when this can happen since our mutex name contains the windows SID of the user launching it, but we'll have to live with it for now.

07:38 Changeset [2665] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/6.0
branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser.Manager/FileSystem.cs

Merged revision(s) 2659 from trunk/eraser: When we are copying over the plausible deniability file, we just need to include some data from it; there's no need to lock the file for exclusive reading.

07:35 Changeset [2664] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/6.0
branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser.Util/VolumeInfo.cs

Merged revision(s) 2660 from trunk/eraser: There was an exception thrown here in one crash report; however there's no information on what error the system returned. So, include this information when we have to trigger an exception.

07:31 Changeset [2663] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/6.0
branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser.Manager/DirectExecutor.cs
branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser.Manager/Task.cs

Backport from Eraser trunk: Handle situations where the list of files/directories we obtained earlier had files or directories removed from disk by simple deletion. Also, handle situations when files are locked by other processes and the file's ADSes cannot be emumerated.

07:28 Changeset [2662] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs

Increment the attempts counter when we do have to retry, otherwise the counter serves no purpose!

07:04 Build of Eraser 6.2 [2661] on Windows completed

05:25 Changeset [2661] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser/Program.GuiProgram.cs

Handle the situation where creating a new mutex when starting the application would cause an UnauthorizedAccessException?. I can't figure out when this can happen since our mutex name contains the windows SID of the user launching it, but we'll have to live with it for now.

05:08 Changeset [2660] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util/VolumeInfo.cs

There was an exception thrown here in one crash report; however there's no information on what error the system returned. So, include this information when we have to trigger an exception.

05:04 Changeset [2659] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/FileSystems/Windows.cs

When we are copying over the plausible deniability file, we just need to include some data from it; there's no need to lock the file for exclusive reading.

04:26 Changeset [2658] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FolderErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/RecycleBinErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/Strings.en.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/Strings.it.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/Strings.nl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/Strings.pl.resx
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/Strings.resx

Normalised the new strings. Also standardise the log level to be informational for the "deleted before it could be erased" type messages since we can't do anything about it.

04:13 Changeset [2657] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/RecycleBinErasureTarget.cs

Fixed compilo.

04:10 Changeset [2656] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FolderErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/RecycleBinErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/SecureMoveErasureTarget.cs

When enumerating the ADSes of a file, we should only attempt doing so a few times, otherwise we may cause a stack overflow. As such, GetPathADSes may not throw SharingViolationExceptions?.
Handle SharingViolationExceptions? when enumerating ADSes.
Also added FileNotFoundException? and DirectoryNotFoundException? handling for all the directory enumeration code. Testing for Exists is not ideal as it is not going to be atomic.

03:11 Changeset [2655] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util/Win32ErrorCodes.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser/Program.cs

When we are run as a command application, the convention is to use ArgumentException? to indicate command line parameter errors. Catch them and show them to the user since he would be the only one to rectify it!

03:05 Changeset [2654] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FolderErasureTarget.cs

Handle situations where the directory we are erasing is deleted before we can securely erase it.

02:57 Changeset [2653] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FolderErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/RecycleBinErasureTarget.cs

When enumerating folders for erasure, it is possible that in the time we got the listings to the time we got the sizes or when we are trying to find the ADSes the file could have been deleted. In those situations, we'd get a FileNotFoundException? or DirectoryNotFoundException?. Handle those and move on.

5/23/2012:

19:04 Build of Eraser 6 [2652] on Windows completed

12:50 Ticket #440 (Redesign Website database schema) created by Joel

There are some tables in the schema that could use some normalisation; …

12:11 Changeset [2652] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser.Manager/Plugins.cs

Report the file version of plugins loaded so that users won't be confused when the assembly version is frozen. Addresses http://eraser.heidi.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8794.

05:39 Changeset [2651] by lowjoel

trunk/website/scripts/UpdateList.php

Since string comparisons don't work for versions when our versions are not zero padded, we need to split the version numbers. Use this until I can overhaul the database schema.

04:38 Changeset [2650] by lowjoel

trunk/website/scripts/UpdateList.php

Fixed update list generation.

04:20 Changeset [2649] by lowjoel

trunk/website/download.php

Remove the 6.0.9 build from our download page.

04:15 Milestone Eraser 6.0.10 completed

Next maintenance release for Eraser 6.0

00:34 Changeset [2648] by lowjoel

trunk/website/reviews.html

Added first two reviews for Eraser 6.

5/22/2012:

19:05 Build of Eraser 6.2 [2647] on Windows completed

11:41 Changeset [2647] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util/VolumeInfo.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util/Win32ErrorCodes.cs

Find volume information from drives assigned a letter but not mounted (notably, flashdrive-like devices which need a password or some sort of 2FA). Also fixes the wrong use of IOCTL_VOLUME_GET_VOLUME_DISK_EXTENTS

11:37 Changeset [2646] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/FileSystems/Windows.cs

Fixed compilo introduced in earlier changes.

10:53 Changeset [2645] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/DriveErasureTargetConfigurer.cs

When we try to obtain drive information, if we get an IOException we should handle it gracefully and not crash the program.

10:49 Changeset [2644] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util/VolumeInfo.cs

When we are retrieving a set of mount points to check if the volume is mounted, we should catch FileNotFoundExceptions? which can be raised if the volume has been dismounted since we obtained the list of volumes on the system.

10:44 Changeset [2643] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Plugins/Host.cs

Fixed typo in the exception message when we cannot load a core plugin.

08:57 Changeset [2642] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/EntropySources/KernelEntropySource.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.Util/Win32ErrorCodes.cs

Don't crash if the drive does not collect performance statistics.

08:50 Changeset [2641] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/FileSystems/Windows.cs

When trying to determine the processes locking the file, we may not have permissions to access the process name, yielding an empty list. Do not crash when doing string manipulation to get the list as a string when this is so.

08:42 Changeset [2640] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Manager/Task.cs

Compile fix.

08:24 Changeset [2639] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/EntropySources/KernelEntropySource.cs

Handle a situation where we are unable to obtain the necessary performance information for entropy gathering.

08:22 Changeset [2638] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs

Handle IOExceptions which we get when we are enumerating directories. This can happen when a target slated for erasure is disconnected.

08:13 Changeset [2637] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Plugins/Registrars/FileSystemRegistrar.cs

Perform Parameter validation for the FileSystemRegistrar?.this[] function.

08:10 Changeset [2636] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Manager/Task.cs

For now, if we get an UnauthorizedAccessException?, just log it. It is a situation we cannot recover from programmatically.

07:56 Changeset [2635] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Manager/Task.cs

Suppress PathTooLongExceptions? for now since .NET does not yet support long (> MAX_PATH) filenames.

07:44 Changeset [2634] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.Manager/Task.cs

Handle a NotSupportedEExceptions thrown from the erase code. This is because NotSupportedExceptions? will be thrown if we try to erase files on an unsupported file system.

07:10 Build of Eraser 6 [2633] on Windows completed

07:05 Build of Eraser 6.2 [2632] on Windows completed

05:31 Changeset [2633] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/6.0
branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser.Manager/DirectExecutor.cs

Backport from Eraser trunk: When erasing a file/folder, it is possible that after the erase is complete the file or containing directory was deleted by the user or another program before it can be erased. A FileNotFoundException?? or DirectoryNotFoundException?? would be raised respectively, so handle that situation by logging a warning.

05:21 Changeset [2632] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/ErasureTargets/FileSystemObjectErasureTarget.cs

When erasing a file/folder, it is possible that after the erase is complete the file or containing directory was deleted by the user or another program before it can be erased. A FileNotFoundException? or DirectoryNotFoundException? would be raised respectively, so handle that situation by logging a warning.

05:00 Changeset [2631] by lowjoel

trunk/website/scripts/blackbox/dumps

Do *NOT* commit anything into this folder.

04:55 Changeset [2630] by lowjoel

trunk/website/download.php

Added the Eraser 6.0.10 release.

04:48 Changeset [2629] by lowjoel

trunk/website/download.php
trunk/website/scripts/SourceForge.php

Implement querying SourceForge? for the number of downloads using the API defined in http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Download%20Stats%20API/

04:34 Changeset [2628] by lowjoel

trunk/website/scripts/Build.php

Fixed the retrieval of the build revision from the database.

01:32 Changeset [2627] by lowjoel

trunk/website/Templates/Eraser.dwt
trunk/website/announcements/20081201.html
trunk/website/announcements/20081213.html
trunk/website/announcements/20090103.html
trunk/website/announcements/20090108.html
trunk/website/announcements/20090418.html
trunk/website/announcements/20090610.html
trunk/website/announcements/20090611.html
trunk/website/announcements/20090706.html
trunk/website/announcements/20091215.html
trunk/website/announcements/20100414.html
trunk/website/announcements/20101106.html
trunk/website/announcements/20111106.html
trunk/website/announcements/20120523.html
trunk/website/contributing.html
trunk/website/download.php
trunk/website/index.php
trunk/website/reviews.html

Updated announcement to show the 6.0.10 release.

01:30 Changeset [2626] by lowjoel

trunk/website/announcements/20120523.html

Added draft announcement for Eraser 6.0.10

01:29 Changeset [2625] by lowjoel

trunk/website/announcements/20111106.html

Fixed missing </p>

5/19/2012:

04:18 Ticket #439 (Ticket 438 cannot respond to it) closed by Joel: invalid: Stop creating new tickets and add comments to the old one. Trac is not a …
04:10 Ticket #439 (Ticket 438 cannot respond to it) created by genethomas@…: Ticket 438 cannot answer via REPLY to your email nor can I see any way to …

5/18/2012:

11:48 Changeset [2904] by lowjoel

Use the programmer-provided defaults if the user did not specify them on the command line.

11:47 Changeset [2903] by lowjoel

Generate XML documentation in the release builds. Also produce output in one common directory since the assemblies are interdependent.

11:45 Changeset [2902] by lowjoel

Sign the wrapper with my strong name, since that is required for other strongly-named assemblies to reference this one.

11:44 Changeset [2901] by lowjoel

Ignore temporary directories and user-generated files.

11:43 Changeset [2900] by lowjoel

Import the Managed Wrappers for Activation APIs from the CLR Activation Team.

11:43 Changeset [2899] by lowjoel

Initial import. This was released on Feb 11 2010 (no version information)

11:36 Changeset [2898] by lowjoel

Regenerate the WinMo? project.

5/14/2012:

06:04 Ticket #437 (Eraser Nightly build 2622 drag & drop not working) closed by Joel: worksforme: It does matter whether Eraser is started as an administrator or not. If …
06:02 Ticket #436 (Eraser Nightly 2622 crashes when try to erase recycle bin from context) closed by Joel: worksforme: I just did as you said, it is working fine for me.
02:44 Ticket #438 (NO RIGHT CLICK erase) created by genethomas@…: ERASE in schedule works fine. I use the manual mode only. I cannot select …

5/12/2012:

02:12 Ticket #437 (Eraser Nightly build 2622 drag & drop not working) created by phkhgh: In Vista x64. In previous nightlies, drag & drop to build new tasks was …
01:48 Ticket #436 (Eraser Nightly 2622 crashes when try to erase recycle bin from context) created by phkhgh: Installed bld 2622 today on Vista x64 - ran several erasing jobs, …
00:58 Ticket #435 (Add numeric progress indicator to Eraser UI) closed by Joel: wontfix: The best progress indicator for this would be your hard disk activity LED. …

5/11/2012:

16:12 Ticket #435 (Add numeric progress indicator to Eraser UI) created by phkhgh

For future builds, suggest adding some sort(s) of numeric progress …

07:46 Changeset [2624] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/EraserService/Eraser.Manager/DirectExecutor.cs
branches/eraser6/EraserService/Eraser.Manager/Eraser.Manager.csproj
branches/eraser6/EraserService/Eraser.Manager/Executor.cs
branches/eraser6/EraserService/Eraser.Manager/RemoteExecutor.cs
branches/eraser6/EraserService/Eraser.Manager/Task.cs
branches/eraser6/EraserService/Eraser/Program.cs

First set of changes to allow implementation as a service.

07:10 Build of Eraser 6 [2620] on Windows completed

07:05 Build of Eraser 6.2 [2622] on Windows completed

03:19 Changeset [2623] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/EraserService

Branch to implement using Eraser as a Service.

03:12 Ticket #362 (Use XML to store task lists) closed by Joel

fixed: The new XML code seems to be working well. If anything doesn't work …

03:10 Ticket #122 (Themed Eraser / Forum / Website Aesthetics.) closed by Joel

fixed: I've skinned the forum recently too. This ticket can finally be closed!

02:51 Changeset [2622] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Eraser.DefaultPlugins/EntropySources/KernelEntropySource.cs

Handle a FileNotFound? exception in the middle of querying performance information since a disk may be ejected in the middle of the loop.

02:48 Changeset [2621] by lowjoel

trunk/eraser/Dependencies/Lzma#.XML
trunk/eraser/Dependencies/Lzma#.dll
trunk/eraser/Dependencies/Lzma#.pdb
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/BlackBox.cs
trunk/eraser/Eraser.BlackBox/Eraser.BlackBox.csproj

Instead of compressing the BlackBox? reports with bz2, use LZMA which results in a 30% smaller file and also a speed up of 300%,

01:22 Changeset [2620] by lowjoel

branches/eraser6/6.0/Eraser/AboutForm.cs

Since in this release we are maintaining binary compatibility with the previous release (all bug fix changes) freeze the Assembly Version and show the Assembly File version instead.