Hiding Files and Folders in Nokia X200 or any Nokia S40 phone

Well Nokia x2 00 has two main preloaded applications in its main menu

1. Photos

2. Music

The Photos app will show all the images on your memory card at this one place

The Music app will show all the music files and video files on your memory card here

Now many a times we want to hide our personal files from other people

What we can do about it

1. Do not give the phone to other people

                But sometimes someone close to us, a friend or a cousin may ask for the phone and it may sound rude to not give the phone

2. Put a security Guard on the phone

                It is one of the best ways to guard your phone by simply putting a key guard security. But again the above reason stands true

3. Hiding the Folders on the Memory Card

                But still they will be visible in Photos and Music Applications

4. Hiding the Files so that they are completely inaccessible

Hiding the Folders on the Memory Card

1. Create a folder named ABCD.jad (or anyname.jad)

2. Put the files you want to hide in this folder

3. Create a folder named ABCD.jar (or anyname.jar)

4. That’s it the ABCD.jad folder and files in it will not be visible anymore

5. To access the folder back rename ABCD.jar to ABCD.jara (or .ja or .j or anything but not .jar)

6. But these files will still be accessible in the Photos and Music Applications.

Hiding the Files so that they are completely inaccessible

Method 1

1. Use Moby explorer and Compress the file

2. You get a file with .gz extension this file will not open on Memory card as well as Photos and Music Applications.

3. Use Moby explorer and decompress the file to get it back

4. Biggest drawback of this method is the time it takes

Method 2

1. Use Moby explorer or any other s40 file manager and rename the file to " abc.gz " !!

2. The file can be directly accessed only from Memory card but not from Photos and Music Applications.

3. Suppose you rename Video.3gp to Video.gz  Then you can only play the video from Memory card the Video will not be seen in Music Application.

4 Similarly suppose you rename Photo.jpg to Photo.gz Then you can only view it from Memory card the Photo will not be seen in Photos Application.


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5. Now PUT this .gz file in .jad folder i.e follow the Hiding the Folders on the Memory Card Tutorial

6. HENCE we have Hide the Files so that they are completely inaccessible

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Now in order to mass rename many files to .gz download this file Renamer.bat

This is a batch script to change the extension of many files together

Open Notepad

Type:

rename *.* *.gz

Save it as renamer.bat

Run this file in a directory where you want to change the extension of may file together :)