Moved from Powerdesk and missing features that had.

[PeterL]

I was a Powerdesk user for 13 years but was not happy with its performance under Win 7 Home Premium so I decided to buy XY. The features I miss most, bear in mind I have only been using it for 1 day.

1. Powerdesk had a built in Size Manager.

2. Powerdesk could encrypt files.

3. When File Tips was activated just passing the cursor over a graphic displayed a thumbnail.

Perhaps these features are already in XY but I have not been able to find them. Any info would be appreciated.

[admin]

Hi and welcome,

no, these features are not available here.

Encryption is probably trivial. What kind of encryption was it?

Don

[PeterL]

Thank you for your reply. The encryption was probably trivial but it did stop anyone looking at my financial folder without knowing the password, I have no idea what type of encryption it was. I have found the XY equivalent of Size Manager, it is under View-Calculate folder sizes. Thank you again for your time.

[admin]

Thank you for your reply. The encryption was probably trivial but it did stop anyone looking at my financial folder without knowing the password, I have no idea what type of encryption it was. I have found the XY equivalent of Size Manager, it is under View-Calculate folder sizes. Thank you again for your time.

Ah, password control. Well, I could add this to a pretty recent feature called "Access Control". But currently I have no time for this.

[admin]

Thank you for your reply. The encryption was probably trivial but it did stop anyone looking at my financial folder without knowing the password, I have no idea what type of encryption it was. I have found the XY equivalent of Size Manager, it is under View-Calculate folder sizes. Thank you again for your time.

Ah, password control. Well, I could add this to a pretty recent feature called "Access Control". But currently I have no time for this.

Ah, sorry, I probably did not get that right. So the contents of that folder were scrambled by powerdesk, and you needed a password to unscramble them?

In that case I would suggest this http://www.truecrypt.org/ ...

[zer0]

Encryption is probably trivial. What kind of encryption was it?

I believe PowerDesk implemented 2 types: their own proprietary algorithm and DES. However, the former locks you in with its vendor and the latter is no longer considered secure.

[PeterH]

Here I think the hint to an external solution is the best to go.

Especially truecrypt is secure, flexible, and if I remember it right you also can have a portable version.

[phatmankerr]

Peter,

Just a word of warning - TrueCrpyt is an extremely good encryption program but is not quite 100% portable as it requires admin rights.

This may not affect you - but it prevents me from using it (on some of my work sites it's not an issue - but on the sites I don't have admin rights - I am then locked out of my files).

Just thought I should point that out.

Thanks

Andy

[PeterL]

Thank you Andy for that advice.

Peter