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When you see this topic, you might think it's simple - it's simple to delete video or other files on a Mac permanently. You may believe that you can permanently delete your files or folders by pressing Command + Del and emptying the trash bin. Your files are not permanently lost after deleting and emptying the trash bin. You delete the file's entry on your Mac to make it disappear.

Many data recovery apps, such as Do Your Data Recovery for Mac, can quickly recover deleted video or other files even if the trash bin has been emptied. Other people are aware of the truth; by recovering these deleted files, they can quickly restore your sensitive data or private information.

And disk utility will not permanently delete your files. Your Mac hard drive can be erased using the disk utility's erasure function. However, you or others can still recover lost files after erasing a Mac hard drive with disk utility.

How to completely and permanently delete video files on Mac?

Before you resell or give your Mac to another person, you should delete any important files including videos on the Mac in case your privacy is compromised. Is there a quick and dependable way to delete files permanently on a Mac? DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is a good option.

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac

  • Permanently shred videos and other files on Mac.
  • Wipe a hard drive to permanently erase all data.
  • Securely wipe deleted/lost data.

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is a Mac data erasure application that can permanently delete files and folders from your Mac hard drive or storage media. It employs advanced erasure technology to destroy and overwrite Mac data to ensure permanent deletion. Your files will be permanently lost after erasing them with this Mac data eraser and will not be recoverable using any data recovery software or manual service.

Now, follow the steps below to permanently erase videos or other files on Mac:

Step 1. Open DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac, you will see the first data erasure mode - Erase Files. Then add the video files to the erasure list.

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Step 2. Click on Erase Now button. Then this software will securely and permanently delete the selected video files.

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Once the process gets finished, the video files are erased, and can’t be recovered by any data recovery method.

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Best permanent deletion solution

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac offers a safe way to delete files from your Mac. It can be used to permanently delete sensitive data, business data, privacy files, and so on. It ensures that any powerful data recovery software will never recover the deleted files and that even the most precise manual data recovery service will be unable to recover the deleted files, effectively rendering data recovery impossible.

Before reselling or recycling your Mac device, you can easily use DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac to permanently delete your emails, photos, documents, videos, and audio files, among other things. When sharing a Mac with others or logging into a public Mac, it is recommended that you permanently erase your private files before shutting down the computer.

A video file can contain very private information. So, before you sell or donate your Mac computer, you’d better permanently erase the video file.

FAQs

1. Can anyone recover the erased video files?

No, when the video files are erased by DoYourData Super Eraser, the videos are gone forever, can’t be recovered by any data recovery software.

2. Will the erasure damage the hard drive?

No, the erasure is 100% safe, it will not cause any damage to your HDD or SSD.

3. Can we use DoYourData Super Eraser erase deleted video files?

Yes, just try Wipe Free Space to permanently erase the deleted video files.

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Written & Updated by Shirly Chen

Shirly Chen has been writing data recovery, data erasure articles for DoYourData over 4 years. She has been working as a professional website content writer & editor for quite a long time. She also writes articles about disk clone, Mac optimization, disk backup, etc.

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