How to make a Folder Hidden at runtime?

[aidmm]

I've created a temporary directory from within my app ( [obj_file] File object), and it will be deleted when the app is closed ( [obj_filefolder] Sphax File-Folder object). Is there a way to make the folder hidden after it's created?

thanks.

[joewski]

I talked about this on the old forum. Sorry I've forgotten the keywords of the process.

Basically you can hide files and folder behind a single file. Its invisible to the normal windows file system and even command line. Only works on NT/XP type systems with NTFS so no Fat32 or Fat systems. It was done to support Mac format files from memory. Its pretty tricky though never got the thing into practice.

[aidmm]

Basically you can hide files and folder behind a single file.

Does this mean I should make a hidden folder before runtime, and place my new folder inside it at runtime?

thanks.

[joewski]

This isn't just set the attributes to hidden this is truely hidden from command line and explorer. You can make the folder at runtime.

[joewski]

Ok I found my old post and recreated it here.

http://www.clickwiki.info/index.php/ADS_Object

[aidmm]

wow! and I can still write to it and delete it at runtime?

EDIT: is this a non-material object? or is it done with other existing functions within MMF?

[raytrace]

This is really good! I'm going to have fun with this Thanks

Well this is a secret that can be used to hide this stuff when they do need to extract it.

Hehe. Not anymore