Looking for a program that secures/locks files from other users on the same computer.

[djxput]

Basically I journal ... dear diary type of stuff. I have hundreds of old entries. I prefer these to be private. I tend to use wordpad for this.

I was using a program called lock a folder ... or something and thought this was hiding and securing the folder - but it was only hiding it (needed a password to unhide) but not keeping the journal entries from something simple as the recent list when you search. Basically I could still bring up my journals from the recent search.

I prefer something where I could lock/hide a folder and have this be secured by a password and not be in the recent tab or one that doesnt load them up if clicking on it. Doesnt have to be hightech etc ... I prefer the whole folder instead of individual documents password protected.

thanks

 

[djxput]

Is there a reason why you can't do this with separate user accounts?

Well I 'only' use my computer but if my wife or others (say a babysitter) wanted to they could so something simple where I could just keep those things private.

 

[djxput]

Just create an encrypted volume using VeraCrypt (which was forked from TrueCrypt which has been around for years).

All you then do is double-click the veracrypt file, enter your password, and it mounts it as a removeable drive that you can do whatever you want with. When you're done just unmount it and you're good to go.

ok thanks Ill take a look at that. This the best option then? so removable drive so the files dont disappear then when unmounted?