said by fatness:Nice topic shift, from wanting to clean leftover MFT entries, to personal behavior.
I didn't bring up the subject of 'privacy' in this thread, I was merely responding to it. But the only reason for worrying about names in deleted MFT records is the desire to make them irretrievable by disk scavenging.
It's no more unusual or suspicious or wrong to want to clean old entries from the MFT than it is to clear your internet cache.
That's simply incorrect on a technical basis. Leftover files in the internet cache may conceivably have some impact on performance and/or correctness. The fact that the former name is still visible in a 'free' MFT entry has no effect in either of those dimensions. This is not a question of deleting unused garbage that takes up space; the space is taken up regardless of whether the old name is visible or it isn't.
In short, if you want to do this, I think either you must be worried about 3rd-party recovery of the names, or you must be wrongly informed about the operation of the file system.
BTW, in order to even see this stuff, you need to access the disk below the level of the file system.