Re: All folders hidden in Apppackage/AppFolder...

2019-12-18 Thread Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech
I suggested, privately, that he just encrypt the file(s) and this might resolve the issue as then no-one, theoretically, can access the file(s). On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:04:14 +, Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech wrote: > Jörg, > > I can’t say anything useful about Windows. On a Mac, though, I have

Re: All folders hidden in Apppackage/AppFolder...

2019-12-18 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
Jörg, I can’t say anything useful about Windows. On a Mac, though, I have to echo Chip’s “why”? The folders you mention are already “hidden”, in the sense that they’re inside a package; although it’s a folder, it appears to be a single file and non-technical users won’t realise that it isn’t.

Re: All folders hidden in Apppackage/AppFolder...

2019-12-17 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
Jörg, Mac or Windows? Jeremy > On 17 Dec 2019, at 12:18, Jörg Knebel via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > G’day All, > > Out of curiosity, what effect would it have if I decide to hide all folders > in the application package/folder and even the data-file programmatically > from

Re: All folders hidden in Apppackage/AppFolder...

2019-12-17 Thread Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech
Jorg, if by 'hide', you mean make them invisible (as in adding a '.' to the file & folder names) well... then you are changing the names of the various files and folders that 4D is expecting to be in place... so that will not work. If you mean using 4D, or other means, to set the invisible bit