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How To Lock A Folder And Keep It Private - title explains it

rvalkass
Sep 18 2008, 08:38 AM
Is it just me, or is all this way too complicated? On Linux, a simple CHMOD to 700 will do the trick tongue.gif Only you will have access to it, and no other user will even be able to see it.

QUOTE("minimcmonkey")
One way to make a compressed folder idiot proof (i dont know if this works on anything but windows)
Rename the compressed zipped folder, and remove the .zip bit, so that windows doesnt recognise it, it will no display a corrupted file, to get it back, rename it and add the .zip bit back.


That won't work on Linux/Mac. Only Windows is foolish enough to trust the file extensions to determine a file type. Linux/Mac use the headers within the file to determine it's type. Hence the reason that you don't need file extensions on anything except Windows.

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Nabb
Sep 18 2008, 10:23 AM
QUOTE(minimcmonkey @ Sep 18 2008, 08:45 AM) *
One way to make a compressed folder idiot proof (i dont know if this works on anything but windows)
Rename the compressed zipped folder, and remove the .zip bit, so that windows doesnt recognise it, it will no display a corrupted file, to get it back, rename it and add the .zip bit back.

I cant guarantee this will work, dot try it on anything important, and dont blame me if it goes wrong!


Let's open up the file in notepad.

CODE
PK    ©d*9]@富ƒ c‡    24.6 walkthru.PNG


HMM I WONDER!
It should be pretty obvious that there's a file hidden in there. Also I know that PK means it's a .zip..
Open it up in winrar and it works fine - you don't even need to change the extension
(worse method: compress into a .rar - the Rar! at the start when opened with notepad isn't at all obvious)

Also I'm pretty sure there's a script out there for windows that analyses the header and determines what file type it is - I've came across it some time a few years ago...

 

 

 


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