Folder Protection

[Irwin of Upton]

Is there a way to protect a folder from either being deleted or moved but its contests inside remain accessible for all possible file manipulations?

[admin]

That would be a case for AccessControl, but this particular thing is not possible yet. Might be an idea for the future. Actually I myself had the desire to do exactly this only some days ago.

[Marco]

And, iirc, that was asked also a while ago (and I myself asked the very same thing even before).

[admin]

Made a note for 17.00.

[highend]

Isn't this something that should be delegated to the NTFS permission system?

[admin]

XY's version would be less strict and more portable. Just a quick little safety plus on the road.

[Irwin of Upton]

Made a note for 17.00.

Am greatly pleased to learn it is under active consideration!

[Filehero]

Isn't this something that should be delegated to the NTFS permission system?

Exactly my view. Especially in portable mode (on "foreign" machines) it must remain an empty promise, mustn't it? At least, seems to have a high can-of-worms potential.

But: if it's rather a sort of an "active tag/label" popping up a "You have protected this item!" message (or triggers any other helpful action, e. g. a script ), then it is very welcome for me as well.

FH

[eil]

But: if it's rather a sort of an "active tag/label" popping up a "You have protected this item!" message (or triggers any other helpful action, e. g. a script ), then it is very welcome for me as well.

+1 for this

[admin]

Is there a way to protect a folder from either being deleted or moved but its contests inside remain accessible for all possible file manipulations?

Does everybody agree that this is we want certain folders to be protected from?

[eil]

i do, as if i understand i still can view folder in flat and make all sublings protected if i need all of them to be.

[tiago]

Sure. Preventing deletion of or moving a set of folders around would be key for a successful backup routine I'm about to build on this machine I am.

[admin]

But renaming would be okay?

[Filehero]

But renaming would be okay?

My wish: no.

For me such a function would offer another - hard - layer of protection to assure that this folder item stays as it is until I decide to change that. If I want to change (rename, delete) it one day, I first have to actively remove the protection.
I would protect all of my backup root directories this way.

Would it support visual/color labeling (a nice overlay icon would be cool eye candy )?

Cheers,
Filehero

[admin]

Okay, just trying to understand. It's nothing that will come soon. The next biggie is Live Filter Box.