You
can lock or unlock files or entire folders from shortcuts created on your
desktop or elsewhere. The operation is exactly the same whether you access it
directly or via a shortcut. It is not the shortcut that is locked, but the file
or folder to which the shortcut points. The operation works in both locking or
unlocking directions.
If you lock a file or folder with a
shortcut, once that file or folder is locked, the shortcut no longer works until
you unlock the file or folder again. Likewise if you unlock a file or a folder
with a shortcut, the shortcut to the locked file no longer works. To be able to
act in both directions using shortcuts from a location, two shortcuts must
therefore be created; one to the unencrypted file or folder and another to the
locked file.
In practice, shortcuts which point to locked files
or folders located on the desktop are used. When you need to access a file or
folder, you unlock it from its shortcut on the desktop and it opens in its
location. If it is a folder, it is locked again directly from the Windows
explorer window either directly in the list of folders by going up the tree or
from the navigation pane of the explorer . Otherwise, you can use the function
of locking all the protected files and folders opened either from the window of
WinSesame accessible from the desktop and the menu start or from a shortcut to
the command fermses See here .
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