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How to password protect a specific folder on a USB thumb drive
How can I password protect a specific folder on a usb thumbdrive? Not the whole drive just a specific folder?
Here's a walk thru that should give you what you're looking for
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000705.htm
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000705.htm
kenfcamp
Thanks but this USB thumb drive doesn't support security, is there a specific brand, or a way of formatting that password protecting a specific folder would be possible?
Gary
Thanks but this USB thumb drive doesn't support security, is there a specific brand, or a way of formatting that password protecting a specific folder would be possible?
Gary
One thing to check... If the drive's properties > General > File system doesn't show NTFS, it first needs to be formatted it as NTFS.
IMO you can't password encrypt a folder on a usb drive. What you can do is encrypt a compressed file that has the files you want to protect using 7-zip, WinRAR, WinZip
UserA who might exist on your system likely will not exist, on any other system where this USB int be attached, the user if they have admin rights can view the contents.
You either need a USB that gas builtin ever its/encryption that would be neeed to decrypt to access
The compress/zip with a password .....the issue you have to take into account is whether the person who will try to access the tile might have to have software installed to unpack, provide the password.
You either need a USB that gas builtin ever its/encryption that would be neeed to decrypt to access
The compress/zip with a password .....the issue you have to take into account is whether the person who will try to access the tile might have to have software installed to unpack, provide the password.
So I ran my suggestion through some tests and here's what I found/determined
This will work on a FAT32 formatted USB drive
You can encrypt a folder, HOWEVER the contents of the folder will be viewable just not accessible
This is effective but extremely limited and portability (Accessing on different systems) is almost impossible.
A better option (IMO) to this would be VeraCrypt -https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
This will work on a FAT32 formatted USB drive
You can encrypt a folder, HOWEVER the contents of the folder will be viewable just not accessible
This is effective but extremely limited and portability (Accessing on different systems) is almost impossible.
A better option (IMO) to this would be VeraCrypt -https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
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