VaultSort 4.6.0
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Overhauls Secure Delete with honest, drive-aware guidance and new safety protections, requires a strong password to encrypt, and gives Encrypt, Decrypt, Guardian and every action window a consistent new design — plus several dialog fixes.
What's New
- Secure Delete now tells you, in plain language, what erasing a file can actually guarantee on the drive you're using. On an encrypted drive — like your Mac's built-in storage — removing a file is cryptographically complete, so a single pass is all that's needed. On a traditional hard drive, overwriting reliably destroys the data. On an unencrypted external SSD or flash drive, overwriting is best-effort (the drive's own controller can keep copies that no software can reach), and VaultSort now points you to encrypting the drive as the genuinely reliable way to protect it. VaultSort also now correctly recognizes encrypted external drives, so they get the stronger guidance.
- Added new safety protections to Secure Delete. It now refuses to follow a shortcut or alias out of the folder you selected, so it can never erase data you didn't choose, and it warns you when a file's data also lives elsewhere on the drive — for example a file with multiple hard links, or an APFS clone — so you're not caught off guard when a copy remains.
- Encrypting a file now requires a strong password and a matching confirmation before it will proceed, with a live match indicator, instead of only warning you after the fact.
- Refreshed the design of VaultSort's windows for a cleaner, more consistent look. Secure Delete, Encrypt, Decrypt, Guardian, Settings, System Resources, Scheduled Jobs, News, Encryption Help, YubiKey Settings, and the disk tools now share the same modern layout with clearer headers and actions.
- Tightened the security of VaultSort's background helper so only VaultSort itself can ask it to perform privileged operations like secure deletion.
Bug Fixes
- The shred strength you choose from the Delete button's menu (Fast, Standard, or Paranoid) is now carried into the confirmation window — previously it always reverted to Standard.
- Fixed the Secure Delete window's content running off the bottom with no way to scroll down to the buttons on smaller screens.
- Fixed the Encrypt and Decrypt button labels briefly flashing black when you selected a file.
- Fixed the drive detail chips in Device Status overflowing off the edge of the window instead of wrapping onto the next line.