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by quietbritishjim
2014 Jan 08, 00:19
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Encrypted/compressed files/folders in colors
Replies: 27
Views: 9412

Re: Encrypted/compressed files/folders in colors

...then the key is stored on your harddrive in plaintext. Methinks you just saved the NSA $79.7 million . Maybe they'll buy you a 9-year-old beer for saving them all the bother of doing it the hard way? :wink: I'm sure you're joking, but just in case not: you need to be logged on when you hibernate...
by quietbritishjim
2014 Jan 07, 21:49
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Encrypted/compressed files/folders in colors
Replies: 27
Views: 9412

Re: Encrypted/compressed files/folders in colors

Oh my, I'm still subscribed to this thread. And oh dear, what a flawed post I made back in 2005 (almost a decade ago!). I'm glad Kilmatead has answered the main question, so now I'll disgress and correct 9-years-ago Jim. If only someone had done it at the time! Yes, it's true that encryption is at m...
by quietbritishjim
2011 Jul 26, 15:02
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: file date anecdotes
Replies: 11
Views: 4364

I'm not sure what the "correct" solution is... Yes I do, I was just having a brain lapse! As of Windows Vista the correct solution is transactional NTFS . In short, NTFS is a journalling file system. This means that Windows doesn't have the same problem as users: even if Windows blue scre...
by quietbritishjim
2011 Jul 26, 09:45
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: file date anecdotes
Replies: 11
Views: 4364

Does it really update the creation time? It's exactly the operation that tunneling is meant to apply to. The reason for writing files that way is not to update the creation time, but to avoid the possibility that a crash (in the program or the whole computer) will cause the file to be half written w...
by quietbritishjim
2011 Jul 25, 21:25
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: sparse is spartan
Replies: 7
Views: 4210

That is indeed how how TrueCrypt containers work, but only if you choose to make them dynamic, rather than static. See this TrueCrypt doc (scroll down to "dynamic"). It contains this warning though: WARNING: Performance of dynamic (sparse-file-hosted) TrueCrypt volumes is significantly wor...
by quietbritishjim
2011 Jul 25, 20:59
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: file date anecdotes
Replies: 11
Views: 4364

Hope it's OK to bump this old thread, but I have a bit of extra info.  [edit]Actually it's not old at all. I misread the date as 2010![/edit] Creation date "memory": In many programs, if you modify a document then save it, then instead of just writing to the file the program will write to ...
by quietbritishjim
2005 Jun 01, 18:50
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Encrypted/compressed files/folders in colors
Replies: 27
Views: 9412

I think I should mention, this whole situation isn't as secure as people make it out to be. What I'm posting is certainly possible, but whether the tools are available I don't know (a few googles should tell you). First of all, if someone has physical access to your machine, file permissions mean no...
by quietbritishjim
2005 Mar 03, 19:51
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Some small bugs and some requests
Replies: 6
Views: 1947

Holy Smoke, you're right!  I feel like such a newbie :oops:  Thanks very much for your patience nikos, if my mates didn't all use linux I'd recommend this program to them!
by quietbritishjim
2005 Mar 03, 18:52
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Some small bugs and some requests
Replies: 6
Views: 1947

Oh sorry, I was talking out of my arse!  When I said "thumbnail viewer" I didn't mean the WMP quick preview pane - that plays all my media fine.  I meant the thumbnail view for the main folder pane.
by quietbritishjim
2005 Mar 03, 18:11
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Some small bugs and some requests
Replies: 6
Views: 1947

that's because tabs are saved by pathname whereas the last active folder is stored as a pidl. Doesn't make much difference anyway In that case, consider it a feature request instead :)  It can be quite annoying when you've got lots of tabs open, the tree view can become quite messy. i think you are...
by quietbritishjim
2005 Feb 28, 03:59
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Some small bugs and some requests
Replies: 6
Views: 1947

Some small bugs and some requests

Here's a few bugs I've found in xplorer2, have fun! Navigate (e.g. using back or up) to a folder... if an item near but not at the top is selected the display is scrolled so it's right at the top (should only scroll if needed to show it). On the Desktop, My Comp and My Docs aren't at the top when so...
by quietbritishjim
2005 Feb 28, 01:56
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: 2Nikos: long list of Xplorer2 requests
Replies: 4
Views: 2250

Re: 2Nikos: long list of Xplorer2 requests

6) There is a really annoying bug: when you first enter the directory after Xplorer2 restart, the first file or folder in this directory is not hilited - there is only a 'dotted' cursor line around it (see screenshot: http://www.nncron.ru/temp/xplorer2.png ).Thus it is impossible to work with this ...
by quietbritishjim
2005 Feb 24, 22:07
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: new beta
Replies: 49
Views: 15932

quietbritishjim wrote:
nikos wrote:scrap windows missed the tabs this time round
the next update i'll pay some more attention to them
Cool thanks! :thumbup: I'll buy xplorer2 for sure when I see this  :D
Well I gave in a paid anyway, but I still hope to see this feature sometime  :)
by quietbritishjim
2004 Nov 17, 01:17
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Feature Request: Prevent Multiple Instances
Replies: 20
Views: 5967

I'd like to request a variant of this idea... I'd like to have it so that if I try to open a new xplorer2 I get a new tab in an existing instance instead.  What's more if I try to run xplorer2 again with some folder passed as its argument, I'd like that to be the folder that opens in the new tab.  N...
by quietbritishjim
2004 Nov 16, 21:18
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: new beta
Replies: 49
Views: 15932

nikos wrote:scrap windows missed the tabs this time round
the next update i'll pay some more attention to them
Cool thanks! :thumbup: I'll buy xplorer2 for sure when I see this  :D