From: "John O'Flynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Harold, I've no idea why this material is in a separate area rather than in the appropriate folders under Program Files. Windows works in strange ways and things are not always where you would expect to find them. There may be some place on the MS site where you could ask an expert for an explanation.
> I'm not familiar with encryption programs, but I notice you said (earlier), "I use Cryptext, it's free and efficient." Well, Harold, it may be free but it's hardly a model of efficiency if it stores an unencrypted copy of a confidential text somewhere else on your HD. Surely you should be raising some questions with the makers of that program Sorry I can't be more informative than this. --- Cheers, John ************* Like Nixon used to say, "Let me be perfectly clear," (btw, I'm surprised John recalls what I said "earlier" - that was some time ago). The encryption program, Cryptext, works fine. Right-click on the file or folder and click "encrypt" or "decrypt" (easy enough). For a backup, I even have MPEncrypt in my Start menu. No matter, I think this is a Windows 98 (and maybe higher versions) idiosyncrasy. It has to do with that C:\Windows\Application Data folder, and how MSOffice uses it. I always keep MSOffice installed in the root C:\ directory (all other programs self-install in Program Files (that's ok). Now I notice in this Application Data folder other sub-folders holding small parts of other main programs that are installed in Program Files. Now I have folders there like --- Adobe, AVG, GuruNet, Identities (that was always there), InterTrust (be damned if I know what that is; it has a subfolder called "ReceiptRepository" and that is empty [I'll delete InterTrust now]), Macromedia, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nvu, SBSoft, Spybot, Sun (that has something to do with Java), and Talkback. As Hugh says, this Applications Data folder might have different material for each user. Now to the point of that unencrypted file that should be encrypted; what I find is that the unencrypted version of my encrypted MSWord document is found in C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Word --- ONLY after a computer freeze where that Word document was prematurely shut down. Then after rebooting, that Word document will show up as "Recovered" --- I might then save the recovered document, and later encrypt it again. But there in C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Word is the unencrypted document (name slightly changed). If that is par for the course, all right --- just that I now know that after a freeze (which happens when resources get low etc), that if security is an issue, I have to check Application Data AND delete that unencrypted Word document that seems to have been saved there. Application Data *doesn't* store an unencrypted version of an encrypted file; no, it stores a back-up "recovered" version of an MSWord document that was prematurely closed (like after a freeze). Next time I do my annual System Restore, I'll immediately look into that Application Data folder to see what's there and see how it grows. Although the computer is working fine, I might put everything there into my desktop "Hold" folder to see how the computer then works. I'm curious about that Identities folder; I think that one has to stay --- Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
