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Mick
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Post by Mick »

The app I am protecting launches to dialogue boxes, one to pick a folder location and one to save to. Problem is when you go to pick the folder or location to save to Windows shows the protected files and folder structure (although trying to get the files or folder properties is not possible), is there anyway to make this stop or set Enigma to create a "system folder" as the temp launch folder?
Enigma
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Re: Hide files

Post by Enigma »

Hi Mick,

I believe you are talking about Virtual Box feature?

If so, there is no currently ability to hide protected files from Open File dialog. You may set an attribute for each file as Hidden, and user who have default Windows settings will not see these files (hidden files are not visible in dialogs by default).

Just a quick note why it is impossible to do. Open File dialog enumerates files in the folder, and protection has to return virtual files in enumeration too. It would be possible to disable file enumeration for virtual files (and probably this feature will be made), but it will have very low compatibility with different applications. For example, if you try to hide some dll files, then probably you will not need files enumeration and you may disable it. But very often, people create more complex virtulization with large number of files, and files enumeration is used somewhere inside application, and not only in Open File dialog. If we disable feature for such application, then it will not work.
Mick
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Re: Hide files

Post by Mick »

Ahh, thanks for the explanation :)
MortySmith
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Re: Hide files

Post by MortySmith »

Hi,
Actually this is possible in BoxedAppSDK , can you please check it out? We really need this feature.
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Re: Hide files

Post by Enigma »

This is possible to do with Enigma Protector too, there are options to hide files from dialogs.
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