I've searched a round quite a bit in the past and present for either a builtin feature or program for this, but had no luck. I want to password protect a folder, but do not wish to encrypt it.
The security of the contents of the folder is not important, the password would just act as a deterrent to somebody attempting to access the contents of the folder from my computer. Think of it like a password lock on a computer, if you were to remove the harddrive you could easily take all the files the user had, but the password is still a deterrent so that not everyone passing by can just hop on.
Two main reasons to not use encryption here are:
- Decreased performance for opening files
- Encryption prevents the contents from being indexed/searchable
Is anybody aware of a solution?