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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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Folder Downloader For Android Lets You Download Entire Dropbox Folders At Once

Popular cloud storage service, Dropbox, has been consistently improving on its service, the web interface, as well as the official desktop and mobile clients. However, one feature that is currently missing in the official mobile client of Dropbox, is the option to download entire folders at once. There are a few third-party apps that let [...] (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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Sync Any Folder On Your Mac With Dropbox Using Symbolic Links [Tip]

Symbolic links in Mac have been around for quite a while, and beyond doubt, they’ve been extremely useful. With the popularity of cloud storage services, particularly ones like Dropbox that sync files and folders from your hard disk directly to your online drive, it only makes sense that the usability scenarios for Symbolic Links will [...] (more…)

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JunctionMaster: Move A Folder Without Changing Its Original Path (Hard Link)

An NTFS Junction Point is a feature of the NTFS file system, which allows users to create a Symbolic Link to a directory that then functions as an alias to that location. To read more about what Symbolic Links, Hard Links and Junction Points are and how they work, head on over to this article. [...] (more…)

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Treeviz: Analyze Disk Space Usage Through 7 Different Tree-Based Data Structure Visualizations

In order to keep your data in order, it’s important to know where each file is saved on your hard disk. Windows Explorer shows you basic folder and file structure, but it does not provide you with a complete overview of folders’ and sub-folders’ sizes. We have previously covered TreeSizeNet and  TDP x-Ray Lite, where the former [...] (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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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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Pneumatic Tubes File Router: Move Files To Different Locations Using Keyboard Shortcuts

File management is very important in order to easily find what you are looking for when you need it. However, if you are performing file and folder management after a long time, most probably there are dozens of files and folders stacked up that need to be sorted. Doing it manually takes up a lot [...] (more…)

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File 2 Folder: Move Selected Files To New Folders Through Context Menu

In order to be able to easily find the file you are looking for, they need to be sorted into separate folders and subfolders with one type of files grouped together. Usually we download all the items, such as documents, music and other files into the same Downloads directory. To sort them, first you have [...] (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…)

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Gemini: Scan For Duplicate Files & Folders On Your Mac [Paid]

Do you often keep duplicate files on your system on purpose? Some people might do so to ensure they always have a copy of a file in its original format while they play around with the duplicate. Others might just accidently end up downloading the same file again and again and saving them to a [...] (more…)

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DirectorySlicer: Split Directory Into Small Folders & Create Hardlinks

Organizing folders that contain thousands of files surely takes a lot of effort and time, as one has to manually move files to separate folders, and then perform required file management operations. If you often deal with such situations where files in a specific folder need to be moved to multiple locations, DirectorySlicer may prove [...] (more…)