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passwords on seperate folders ex HD
Name: Olaf Date: April 7, 2009 at 17:25:54 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: General
Comment:
hi, i travel a lot and have an external hard drive wich i would like to protect and sub protect so they can borrow it for say music or movies but they cant't go into my personal stuff.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: April 8, 2009 at 05:02:06 Pacific
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Reply:
Who is "They?" Set permissions so that only you have access to the personal folder.
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Response Number 2
Name: Olaf Date: April 8, 2009 at 12:09:26 Pacific
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Reply:
hi
with they i mean other people in the hostel who use my drive to watch movies on their laptop i don't have a laptop but i don't want them to go to all my stuff if i can have a few paswords say a main one on the drive, one for the movies and one for my personal stuff so i gave them the password to the movie file
olaf
Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: April 8, 2009 at 18:07:13 Pacific
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Reply:
If you don't want to set permissions, then you'll need to install a third-party software that allows you to password-protect folders. Google should help.
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