GIGO
Gigo stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. Like any good trashcan you can bin things and get them back if you want to.
Oh no, not another trashcan application?! Well, yes. So why'd I write it? I like the way the Fat German's Blackhole 2 works in general but I found it cause mysterious hangups on shutdown sometimes and it has all this other guff that I never use. The irony of the last point is that Gigo actually needs a bigger wimpslot than BlackHole despite having far fewer features. If that bothers you then by all means use BlackHole!
The main feature common to Gigo and Blackhole2 is the use of aging trash directories. i.e. when you bin things they are stored by date and automatically deleted when they've been in the bin for a configured number of days. The way many bins have a simple 'empty everything' method of operation seems a bit lame to me which is the main reason I like BlackHole2.
Gigo also keeps a record of bin operations which enable files to be 'unbinned' back to their original location. You can, of course, copy or move files directly from the bin directories using the filer but it's sometimes useful to know where the file came from originally.
The main feature common to Gigo and Blackhole2 is the use of aging trash directories. i.e. when you bin things they are stored by date and automatically deleted when they've been in the bin for a configured number of days. The way many bins have a simple 'empty everything' method of operation seems a bit lame to me which is the main reason I like BlackHole2.
Gigo also keeps a record of bin operations which enable files to be 'unbinned' back to their original location. You can, of course, copy or move files directly from the bin directories using the filer but it's sometimes useful to know where the file came from originally.
