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Password protect files that can be edited Robert 08-15-2007
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Um9iZXJ0?= on August 15, 2007, 7:46 pm
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As a security measure, I placed all of my financial files in a zipped
compressed folder and protected the folder with a password. Now I find the
files have been changed to Read-Only and, as such, they cannot be brought up
to date, or edited. I have not been able to change the file properties, and
do not know of any procedure to follow to edit a file other than remove the
password protection, edit a file, and then go through the procedure of
compressing and password protecting the file again. Does anyone have a more
realistic solution to protecting the privacy of sensitive files while
maintaining an easy method of editing?
--
Robert

Posted by on August 16, 2007, 10:18 am
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Are you using Excel? Isn't there a way to put a password on each
Excel document? Then you wouldn't have to put them in a zip folder.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:46:03 -0700, Robert

|As a security measure, I placed all of my financial files in a zipped
|compressed folder and protected the folder with a password. Now I find the
|files have been changed to Read-Only and, as such, they cannot be brought up
|to date, or edited. I have not been able to change the file properties, and
|do not know of any procedure to follow to edit a file other than remove the
|password protection, edit a file, and then go through the procedure of
|compressing and password protecting the file again. Does anyone have a more
|realistic solution to protecting the privacy of sensitive files while
|maintaining an easy method of editing?

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Um9iZXJ0?= on August 17, 2007, 1:44 pm
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Lady Dungeness: Thanks for your response. I think you have found the answer
to my problem both in Excel and also Word. I appreciate your help.

--
Robert


"LadyDungeness@Fish.Net" wrote:

> Are you using Excel? Isn't there a way to put a password on each
> Excel document? Then you wouldn't have to put them in a zip folder.
>
>
> Lady Dungeness
> Crabby, but Great Legs!
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:46:03 -0700, Robert
>
> |As a security measure, I placed all of my financial files in a zipped
> |compressed folder and protected the folder with a password. Now I find the
> |files have been changed to Read-Only and, as such, they cannot be brought up
> |to date, or edited. I have not been able to change the file properties, and
> |do not know of any procedure to follow to edit a file other than remove the
> |password protection, edit a file, and then go through the procedure of
> |compressing and password protecting the file again. Does anyone have a more
> |realistic solution to protecting the privacy of sensitive files while
> |maintaining an easy method of editing?
>

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?QW50ZWF1cw==?= on August 22, 2007, 5:44 pm
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You could also look at Truecrypt (.org) this will allow you to mount an
encrypted archive as a driveletter, which is much more convenient in that you
only need supply a password once for each work-session. Plus, it's
military-standard security.

Just don't lose the password, if you do the data is gone.



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?c3BpZGVyMQ==?= on December 22, 2007, 4:01 pm
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"Robert" wrote:

> As a security measure, I placed all of my financial files in a zipped
> compressed folder and protected the folder with a password. Now I find the
> files have been changed to Read-Only and, as such, they cannot be brought up
> to date, or edited. I have not been able to change the file properties, and
> do not know of any procedure to follow to edit a file other than remove the
> password protection, edit a file, and then go through the procedure of
> compressing and password protecting the file again. Does anyone have a more
> realistic solution to protecting the privacy of sensitive files while
> maintaining an easy method of editing?
> --
> Robert

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