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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.

Hi and welcome,

no, these features are not available here.

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

Don

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.

PeterL wrote: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 wrote:

PeterL wrote: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/ ...

admin wrote: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.

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.

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

Thank you Andy for that advice.

Peter