by zsolt » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:54 am
Hello arice,
It might be that you simply did not understand how the V3 works:
When you click on protected folder, it will not give you a password prompt as the V2 did, it will simply show an empty folder (by default). If you unlock the folder in espionage and go again into that folder, then your protected files will show up.
In my opinion this design is much better, because to an intruder the folder would look just empty which is better then bringing up the prompt, because then the intruder does know that he hit a confidential folder and might be tempted to figure out how to get to the content.
What is even better (and maybe even more confusing), if you lock the folder, and it shows up empty, you can actually put some dummy files into it, once you unlock the folders these will disappear and you will see your real data. Once you lock it, the dummy files will be back. So you can put some, so to say, misleading files into it, say you name your tax return folder "Old pictures" you encrypt it, lock it, and add a few old photos into the folder. If somebody snoops around, he sees nothing unusual there. Once you unlock the folder, you will see all your tax related stuff.
So go ahead, open Espionage V3, unlock your protected folder and then revisit it in the FInder, are the files now there?
Pls let me know,
Zsolt
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