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By *risky_Mare OP Woman
over a year ago
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Anyone know of a good free software for locking a folder of pictures on a PC? My computer crashed over the weekend and I suddenly thought if I ever had to take it away to be repaired I would DIE of embarrassment!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Keep them on a pen drive. You can get encrpted ones that you password protect and if the password is entered too many times incorrectly its wiped. I had one for work xx |
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By *risky_Mare OP Woman
over a year ago
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Oh dear, seems pretty unanimous lol, though I don't have anything particularly bad on here......but the guy who came out today opened my recycling bin and the ONLY thing I could see out of all the files was a huge deleted cock haha!! Shan't make that mistake again, but I'd like to lock pics on here anyway. Looking at VeraCrypt - any views? |
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my advice dont bother you can lock them but you can still access them
as been said you want to store pics store them off your main system on a separate hard drive
I would only encrypt a hard drive with personal pics/vids on it |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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"Anyone know of a good free software for locking a folder of pictures on a PC? My computer crashed over the weekend and I suddenly thought if I ever had to take it away to be repaired I would DIE of embarrassment! "
Trucrypt is a good suggestion, either on a separate memory stick or otherwise. |
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By *risky_Mare OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Who are you trying to hide them from?
If it's not from the government you may as well just throw them in a zip file with a password attached."
Good point - the software looked a bit complicated to me (I am far too impatient to reading long complicated instructions) and I mostly want to just take them out of obvious view, I have 5yrs onsite cover for my computer anyway.
There was a fairly simple 'no software required' method on youtube, I might look at that too. I'm lazy, I want something that's easy to get stuff on and off, but I could jut use a dedicated memory stick. I've never trusted them since I heard they often fail though. |
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memory sticks you get what you pay for some last ages some dont
I can vouch for corsair been using it for the last 5 years and its been formated often for installing operating systems from the usb stick
as goes for children just use a folder lock program
as goes for work pc or laptops store off the main system, either with a memory stick or an external hard drive.
both can fail but so can the main pc hard drive
anything that you delete can be brought back thats if the people are tech minded |
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Forgive me, I should have been clearer in what to do.
Go to EBay, do a search for 3.5 in USB external drive cases (will cost you less than £20). Buy!
Now buy a 3.5in heard drive, screw into case, attach power and data lead.
Plug into power and USB port.
Use your new F/G/H or whatever drive as backup for hard-drive and as default save for all document saves.
Its not hard or expensive to do. |
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This. Create an encrypted container and put all your sensitive documents in it. 
