If you want to hide files from everyone and you have an NTFS partition, you can do it by using streams. NTFS allows a file to have multiple streams using <filename>:<StreamName> syntax.
Open a CMD prompt and type:
notepad "MyFile.txt"
You will be prompted to create it. Click Yes. Enter some text and save the file. Do a DIR and record the size of the file. Now type:
notepad "MyFile.txt:secret"
You will be prompted to create it. Click Yes. Enter some text and save the file. Now type:
notepad "MyFile.txt
You will be prompted to create it. Click Yes. Enter some text and save the file. Now type:
DIR MyFile.txt
You will see that the streams are invisible and that the file size is the same as you originally recorded. Likewise, you will not see them in Explorer.
You may read/edit your data by typing:
notepad "MyFile.txt
The only way I know to remove the streams is to copy the file to a FAT partition and then back again:
Copy MyFile.txt A:\
A copy from an NTFS partition to an NTFS partition will preserve the streams.
Copy A:\Myfile.txt MyFile.txt
