https://wjmaritz.dev/tags/documentation/Recent content in Documentation on Wilhelm MaritzHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/folder-locker-never-locked/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/folder-locker-never-locked/<p>In February 2025 I wrote a folder locker: a Windows batch script with a password prompt, a folder that vanishes from Explorer, and a README describing it as secure. The password was sitting in the script in plain text. The files were never encrypted. What the script actually did was rename a directory, and it took me three versions across seventeen months before the documentation said so plainly.</p> <h2 id="the-entire-lock">The entire lock</h2> <p>Here is the mechanism, in full:</p>