{"id":43018,"date":"2022-08-15T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=43018"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:59:23","slug":"raider-shred-files-linux-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/raider-shred-files-linux-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Raider – Stupid Simple App to Shred Files in Linux Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking for a file shredder app for Linux? Raider is the one with a stupid simple user interface.<\/p>\n

There are already a few good ways to securely delete files in Ubuntu Linux, such as BleachBit<\/a><\/i> and Nautilus wipe<\/i> extension. But for a large list of files or those do shred files frequently, this app could be more efficient. <\/p>\n

It’s Raider<\/a>, also known as File Shredder, a free open-source GTK4 application. With it, you can just drag and drop files into app window<\/b>, then shred as many files as you want via single mouse click.<\/p>\n

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File Shredder with Drag and Drop support<\/p><\/div>\n

The default remove method is ‘wipesync<\/code>‘ which also sync each obfuscated byte to disk. Though, you may set it to ‘wipe<\/code>‘ that first obfuscate bytes in the name, or ‘unlink<\/code>‘ to delete file name from the filesystem.<\/p>\n

It by default overwrites file with random data, which however is a clue that the file has been shredded. User can choose to overwrite with zeros instead to hide shredding.<\/p>\n

And there are options to specify how many times to shred file over, number of bytes to shred, and whether to override the file permissions.<\/p>\n

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How to Install File Shredder<\/h3>\n

The app is available to install via the universal Flatpak package, that works in most Linux.<\/p>\n

1. For Ubuntu users, first press “Ctrl+Alt+T” on keyboard to open terminal. Then, make sure the daemon package is installed by running command:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n
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2. Next, install the tool via command:<\/p>\n
flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/com.github.ADBeveridge.Raider.flatpakref<\/pre>\n
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Once installed, launch it by either searching from ‘Activities’ overview, or using the command below:<\/p>\n
flatpak run com.github.ADBeveridge.Raider<\/pre>\n
How to Remove File Shredder:<\/h3>\n
To remove the software, simply run command in a terminal window:<\/p>\n
flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.github.ADBeveridge.Raider<\/pre>\n
And clear unused libraries via flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Looking for a file shredder app for Linux? Raider is the one with a stupid simple user interface. There are already a few good ways to securely delete files in Ubuntu Linux, such as BleachBit and Nautilus wipe extension. But for a large list of files or those do shred files frequently, this app could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2039],"class_list":["post-43018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-security"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}