Even if you keep the same folder name, it will just create a password protected folder with the same name, with the. This way you can close the folder your'e working in whilst leaving yourself logged in to your machine, leave your machine going for that coffee and the folder cannot be accessed by any one passing by your machine whilst it's unattended, unless you left the password hanging around on a bit of paper.Īs others may have discovered the hard way, this doesn't actually protect the original folder. Click 'create' and your done - a compressed folder file appears, which upon attempting to open it, requires you to provide the password you created. 7z type in your password under 'other options' ensuring 'Encrypt file list too' is checked.Ĥ. Choose 'compress' from the context menu which appears.ģ. Using your mouse place pointer over folder to be password protected and right click.Ģ. I believe a better solution to be the use of the 'compress' utility in the folder context menu:ġ. This would still leave access to any such 'protected' folder if you leave your machine whilst logged in (to get a cup of coffee).

'Let's say you have a folder called 'mine', you can either with from the right-click > Properties > Permissions menu in the file manager remove all access for the group and others (only leave owner),'

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