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Is there a way to create a private folder?
It would be great if their was a way to create a private section in your
dropbox, a folder or directory that we can set to invisible and if someone visits
your dropbox they can not see your priv...
If the account is shared between several users, they they all will have access to everything. I fear the only way you can keep a folder secure and away from other users eyes is by encrypting it. Boxcryptor do this work and is free up to some size (If I remember well, up to 2GB is free). It's very easy to use:
- create an account in Boxcryptor website and download the software in your pc
- Boxcryptor will create a folder inside dropbox and request a password
- move the files you want to keep confidential into this folder
- content of this folder will be encrypted
- all users with the login information can see the documents but when they opened, the content is encrypted. there you can only have unusable data.
- only the computer with boxcryptor software and key can decrypt the documents (it's transparent to you).
Note: Boxcryptor can be loaded in your smartphone as well
Note2: You need to backup the Boxcryptor key!!! if you lost the key, your data in the encrypted folder is lost forever!
Note3: backup all your data on regular basis into HDD or DVD, etc.
I second that. I work for two different corporate entities owned by the same family trusts, and we have Dropbox Pro set up for each in order to keep the accounts/information completely separate. Each account is accessed (via shared folders and direct website access) by the same 4-6 people, although I do the actual document adding. We now need to set up a private section to which only I would have access, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. What I need to add/keep is not really large enough for a separate Dropbox account, so I'd like to be able to do so within one of the existing accounts.
Any possibility of such a thing?
