My folder locker never locked anything

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. The entire lock Here is the mechanism, in full: