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Secure Bin Lets You Lock Each File & Folder With A Different Password

Keeping important files hidden from other PC users is very important, especially if your job includes protecting sensitive information from unauthorized usage. Although you can quickly protect your data by encrypting the entire disk,  it often takes quite a while to manually decrypt each file to gain read and write access. Another method that most users use [...] (more…)

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xShredder: Overwrite Free Space & MFT, Wipe Disk, Shred Folders & Files

When you delete a file, it goes to the Recycle Bin. To remove it completely from your hard drive, you have to delete it from the Recycle Bin as well. However, even after you have completely removed it from your hard disk, one can easily recover the deleted file using a powerful data recovery utility, [...] (more…)

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Copy Path to Clipboard: Access File/Folder Path Copy Functions From Right-Click Menu

You may already know that Windows does not show you the complete path of a folder or file, and if you need the complete path, you need to click the Windows Explorer address bar or open folder/file properties to copy the complete path. Wouldn’t it be better if you could copy the complete path of [...] (more…)

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BuddyBackup: Backup Important Data To Your Friends’ & Family’s Computers

Backing up your files and folders is very important. You never know when your hard drive might crash or a virus might corrupt your files and folders. Moreover, anyone with malicious intentions can also delete your files if they get access to your computer. Whatever the case, if you have a backup of your files [...] (more…)

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Quickly Find & Remove Empty Files & Folders From Your Hard Drive

During manual cleanup of our hard disks, sometimes we find an empty folder without any file in it. In the same way, sometimes we stumble upon an empty file inside a folder, which is not useful for anything. Most of the times, these empty files and folders are remnants of uninstalled applications. For instance, when [...] (more…)

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Use A File As Template & Prevent Overwriting A Master Copy In Mac [Tip]

Have you ever unintentionally modified a really important file that you have no other copy of? That is probably the best time to say ‘Duh’ if life has yet to give you an opportunity to use the word. The thing is, deleted files can be recovered by recovering older versions of the file that’s been [...] (more…)

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MTE Locker: Password Protect Files/ Folders & Create Encrypted Archives

If your computer contains sensitive files, you can protect them using the default Windows user protection or other PC locking software. It will lock down your entire computer, and anyone without a password will not be able to access it. However, if you have to share your computer a lot, telling your password to other [...] (more…)

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Compare Two Folders For Matching Data Even With Similar File Names

A lot of times, it happens that when you copy a lot of new information and place it along with items that you have saved in the past, multiple copies of the same item are created; one from the old collection, and a replica from the new one. However, sometimes, it might be that the [...] (more…)

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Commenteer: Add Batch Comments To All Files In A Folder [Mac]

Adding a file comment helps you find it more easily using the Spotlight search in Mac, but imagine having to add the same comment to a whole batch of files. Not only is it a tedious process, but it also involves accessing the right-click context menu for each file. A shortcut can be to add [...] (more…)

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Order In My Folder: Sort Files Using 8 Different Criteria

Sorting files can be a real pain sometimes, especially when there are a lot of files to put into different folders. The usual way to do this is create new folders one by one and then manually move the files into each one of them, depending on your sorting criteria. However, each one of us [...] (more…)

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[Giveaway] Disk Drill: File Recovery App That Lets You Undo Delete On Your Mac

We last reviewed Disk Drill in 2010, when the app was still in its infancy and was free. Since then, the Disk Drill for Mac has added new features and introduced a pro version, in addition to a free one, of their file recovery app. The app isn’t just a recovery app; it also provides [...] (more…)

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Hanso Tagger: Batch Tag Music Files With Case Sensitive Corrections

Properly tagging files allows you to easily locate them when you need to. A lot of people like to keep their files, such as their music, organized in separate folders. Tagging your music files helps you in searching for the required file in any music player. Tagging files using the default Windows options is a [...] (more…)

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Monitor File Creation Activity Across Disk Volumes Using File Extension Monitor

You may know that when you uninstall an application, it doesn’t remove all those files and folders which were created during the execution of the application. The applications’ left over data has to be manually removed to save precious disk space, but what if you can’t find the locations where files and folders created by [...] (more…)

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FilePro: Graphically Analyze Disk Space From Multiple Perspectives & Criteria

If we keep installing large applications in our system, the hard disk can run out of space pretty quickly. Games and application such as Adobe Photoshop take up a lot of space on the hard disk during installation. More space is consumed by them when saving a game or an edited picture or video. So, [...] (more…)

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Sequenzetto: Affix Numerical Sequence To Folders & Files [Mac]

In the past, we’ve covered multiple apps that make it easy to rename files in bulk. Files are normally renamed on a given pattern or syntax that the app defines and where the user enters the variables. What most file renaming apps do is change the entire name of the file altogether. We recently recommended FreshBatch to [...] (more…)