Disable Folder/File Copy

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Hello There,

I want to set attribute to directory so that - This (Required) directory can not copy, send to, Move to any other location.

Purpose : We can prevent making copy of secure data.

Please suggest/Help.

Posted 27-Feb-12 4:55am

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Dean Oliver 27-Feb-12 11:04am

Why not rather encrypt the data.

johannesnestler 27-Feb-12 11:33am

Impossible, bad requirenment - go for encryption on sensible data (so that a copy is useless).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-12 17:31pm

Exactly. Dave correctly answered.
--SA

Philippe Mori 27-Feb-12 19:01pm

Don't give access to that data at all.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-27T05:30:00

You can't prevent a user from copying or moving the data. Why??

Because code always runs AS the user who launched it. It inherits the users security token and all of his/her permissions.

Now, a file copy operation is nothing more than open a file, read the bytes in it, then close the file. Does that sound anything like what your application does?? It should.

If the user is unable to open and read the file for copy, your application won't be able to read the file either.

The ONLY method you have of securing the data is to encrypt it with a reversible encryption scheme.