I'd read a number of posts from users who experienced the same error, and who said the process seemed to have worked in spite of the error. Given that this feature is clearly unreliable, it'd be nice to be able to check it's work. If I could see them before erasure, and compare to after erasure, then I'd know whether the erasure has done it's job. I'd like software that will allow me to see the files that have been deleted (trash emptied). Perhaps this question will advance the topic. Three hours later the globe was still spinning, and it was nap time for Granda Geezer Hippy, so I powered down out of it. When I did the Command R start it went automatically in to Internet recovery, you know, with the spinning globe. That generated the error, so I did a little research and discovered the process you refer to above. The first time I did it I just clicked erase free space in disk utility. Check about this mac, storage to see if free space was erased." "I was attempting to erase free space on my laptop with mac disk utility and received the error message could not create temporary file and found the free space had been erased. I was reading some more about this issue, and from one of the links, one of the users posted this: But at least CCleaner seems to be a viable option. Yes, it is frustrating that an explanation/solution cannot be found.
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It can be obtained for free from Piriform, and here is the link: Īnd, some folks did have success with it. I did see, though, a recommendation to use the software CCleaner.
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I just did a google search of "secure erase failed - couldn't create temporary file", and I did not see one single explanation of how to alleviate this error with Disk Utility. But, I was erasing the entire contents of the drive, so it is somewhat different. The last (and most secure) option, called 35-pass, took over 3 days, but I never got any such error. I then decided it need to be replaced (have subsequently done that with a 512 gig Samsung 850 Pro 512 gig SSD), I of course needed to dispose of the drive, so I went ahead and attached the drive to the MacBook Pro, and did ALL levels of the Erase process that Disk Utility offers. Recently, one of my 1 TB Seagate External Drives started giving me issues, in that TechTool Pro kept warning me that the drive was starting to fail. I have an older 17" MacBook Pro, and it has the last version of Snow Leopard, OS 10.6.8, on it.
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