passowrd protecting song files

[mikeis41]

Hi Dale, thanks for your reply to my cry for help. I must say that my head began to ache when I read that I have to open each file individually (because you can't select a group). I have something like 7,000 songs. That could take a lifetime for me.
What about taking the laptop apart and disableing the usb ports- too radical? I don't know what to do at this point.
Well, I'm off to read some more of your old posts!

Talk to you later

Mike Lang

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by mikeis41

Hi Dale, thanks for your reply to my cry for help. I must say that my head began to ache when I read that I have to open each file individually (because you can't select a group). I have something like 7,000 songs. That could take a lifetime for me.
What about taking the laptop apart and disableing the usb ports- too radical? I don't know what to do at this point.
Well, I'm off to read some more of your old posts!

Talk to you later

Mike Lang

I agree. I looked at that and thought about the 9000+ files I have and went "NO WAY!" The few (108) files I just did the encryption on took about 5 minutes just for that part. Let's see 9000/108 * 5 minutes?
I have looked for some way to do this for multiple files and could not find anything at MS to do it. Somebody would have to write a script file to be able to handle all those at once.

[Beavis]

isnt there a program called Dirlock ??

http://www.download.com/dirLock/3000...-10558978.html

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Beavis

isnt there a program called Dirlock ??

http://www.download.com/dirLock/3000...-10558978.html

Yes but according to xtort.net? "dirLock doesn't encrypt the content of the folder you are going to lock, ... dirLock also disables the Security Tab from the Folder Properties when it loads.

This would not be a good thing. Other info is that it does not prevent another person with same rights from moving/copying the files in the directory. I have a feeling though that Hoster would not be able to work either.

The objective here is to encrypt the KMA files, allowing specified users to use the files in Hoster, but not allowing those users to copy, move or delete those files. Encrypting them is the easy part though time consuming because each file has to be done individually. The hard part is setting the additional users permissions to allow use. This has to be done file by file and cannot be done on a group of files at once.