Is there a difference between purging from the recycle bin and deleting by means of an overwrite on the server?
It is my understanding that a purge on laserfiche is irreversible just as the overwrite is.
They are not equivalent actions, they're complementary.
When a user deletes documents, they are placed in the recycle bin. When the recycle bin is purged, the documents are no longer available in the repository (and they are deleted from disk). However, it is still possible to recover the image, text and electronic files from disk through data recovery utilities. If you want to make sure that files are not recoverable from disk, you would turn on secure deletions where the Laserfiche Server will overwrite each deleted files several times making recovery impossible.
Documents still in the recycle bin will not be touched as part of the secure deletion action in the Laserfiche Server since the point of the recycle bin is to keep the documents available in case the user changes their mind about deletion.
How does "Overwrite files before deletion" come into play with documents that have been destroyed via Records Management actions? I have a client that needs "confidential destruction" which they described as overwriting after destruction. I don't know that they also want any deleted documents to be overwritten, so if the overwrite is always the method for destroyed documents, that will be helpful.
Thanks for any info.
The reason for the deletion doesn't come into it, the option applies any time a file is deleted from a repository volume.