Renaming Files
- Select a directory that contains the files you wish
to rename.
- Choose the file extension of the file type you wish
to rename.
- If you wish to rename all files of this type that reside
in subdirectories, tick the box.
- On the left hand side, choose an option to either change
the extension, add a prefix or add a suffix.
- Click the start button.
(Prefix goes before the file name, suffix goes after the
file name but before the extension).
Changing the Timestamps
- Select a directory that contains the files you wish the change the timestamp
of.
- Select the date and time you wish to stamp the file with.
- Select the times you want to change. These are, the time of creation,
time of last write, and the time of last access.
- Alternatively, you can drag and drop files onto the file list for inclusion.
- Known issue: When the time stamps
are changed, the day figure may be one greater than the one you specified.
To get around this, do the following: If for example you want the day 14,
to be stamped, then select 13 when choosing the date.
Shredding
Files
Warning: Be extremely careful when shredding
files, as shredding makes them, by definition, unretrievable.
-
Select a directory containing the files you wish to shred,
or alternatively drag and drop files onto the file list.
- Select the amount of times to overwrite the files with random data. (Higher
is more secure but slower.)
- Choose whether or not to shred files in the subdirectories (Be very careful
with this!)
- Press Start to begin shredding.
Note: Choosing
a value of one or two for the overwrite is not 100% effective against someone
trying to recover your data. Certain techniques have been developed ,weakly
shredded data leaves a magnetic "ghost image" on a disk, that can
be used to recover what you might think is unrecoverable. For instance the US
Department of Defence uses a value of 7 when they wipe data for absolute certainty.
A value of 4 or above should be ok though.
Encrypting Files
- Select the directory containing the files you wish to encrypt, or alternatively
drag and drop files onto the file list.
- Choose to incluse all files in the directory you chose, if you chose one.
- Choose an encryption algorithm (key strengths are given above).
- Enter a password to encrypt the files with, then verify the password in
the dialog box that appears.
- Press start to begin,
Warning: We do not have the ability to
recover lost passwords or data. Be careful not to lose or forget the passwords
to the files you have encrypted as, if you do, you will never see your data
again.
Note: When FileOps
encrypts files, it appends 3 exclamation marks as a new extension to the file
name. Example: encrypting "file.txt" will give "file.txt.!!!".
When decrypting files. FileOps assumes all files with the ".!!!" extension
are encrypted so when it accesses a file with this extension, it knows that
it is encrypted so attempts to decrypt it. Conversely, if FileOps accesses a
file that does not have this ".!!!" extension it assumes it has to
be encrypted.
Uploading
Files
- Select the directory containing the files you wish to upload, or alternatively
drag and drop files onto the file list.
- Choose a profile to use to access the FTP server, or click on "FTP
Settings" to create one.
- Enter the path to upload to Example: this maybe "/public_html"
for your webspace (remember the leading "/"). If the remote directory
does not exist, FileOps will disconnect. Leave this field blank to upload
to the root of the user tree.
- Click on upload to begin uploading.
Note: You may experience
dificulty connecting if you are on a LAN or behind a firewall. This wil be fixed
in a later release.
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