Ok this just came to me as a way to hide files. It isn't that secure if someone was persistent, but if you wanted to stop people in your house looking at your files it would help. You could set a tree heirachy of Folders, say 100 layers, each splitting off with 2 - 26 folders in each and at the end of one path you could have your files. Now you name the folders a letter in each, that way you can sorta remember a passcode or write it down so you would go in and press the combination with an enter inbetween each letter. Say a enter, z enter, c enter etc.. I know it is a little stupid as there are much better methods out there, but just thought it would be a cool and crazy thing to do
this made me miss windows 95(for a second) I'm not sure if this worked in 98 or not but in 95, you could go to a command prompt and rename a file with a special character - example ¿ After that, windows wouldn't recognise it and error out and woudln't show the file name at all. rename it and remove the special character and it works again.
A guy at work once found some pictures under the "administrative tools" tab in the control panel. It wasn't any bad pictures or anything. it's a good place to hide it.. who would ever think of looking there? (i guess the search function would kill this one aswell. as for hiding files. Store them on a pendrive and take it with you.
Isn't it possible to create a folder and lock it? if you can't on standalone XP i'm SURE there are programs out there, any good ones if anyone reocmmend haha.
This is why I love OS X - encrypted sparse image, behaves pretty much like a password protected folder, and all native in the OS. AH
Yeah, and if you don't use it it's just another one of those things whats making the OS a tiny bit more bloated. I'd rarther everything i needed was a download/add-on then all intergrated
Gotta love the Linux method, set the permission's and only you can open the folder let alone view or run the contents
lol Truecrypt is your friend. Just DON'T forget the password, or you're completely screwed. No mucking about, and your 'folder' looks like (is) a normal file. I just made some random container of test_podcast.mp3 and I can stick whatever I want in there, and it just looks like an MP3 file. Unplayable (and 200+mb might be a slight givaway), but you won't notice it if you're not looking, and in any case won't be able to open it without the passphrase. If you're really anal about it, you can keep nesting container files within each other, but obviously if you forget ANY passphrase then you're screwed. You simply can't bruteforce these things, seeing that they're at or above military-level encryption. Of course, it'd be a good idea to make a backup of the container file. So when someone tries to open it, can't, and then deletes it, you're not hosed.
You can make a new partition, drop your stuff there, and then use Partition Magic to hide that partition.
