How to Encrypt a Folder for Privacy

❎ Want to keep your folders private? This article shows three ways to encrypt everything inside a folder. Each method has pros and cons, so you’ll learn which one best protects your files while balancing ease of use. ❎ Encrypting a folder Encrypting a folder keeps all its files safe from prying eyes. Windows Pro can do this with a simple right-click, VeraCrypt uses secure “containers,” and Cryptomator is great for cloud storage. Each has pros and cons, but all protect your data with encryption and a password. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/23097 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ How Do I Encrypt a File? ▶ https://youtu.be/PvMICulyBEQ Chapters 0:00 How Do I Encrypt a Folder? 0:25 Using Windows to encrypt files and folders 1:43 Back up your key 3:00 Pros and cons 3:37 VeraCrypt 4:00 Create a volume 6:37 Use your volume 9:30 Container size 9:55 Cryptomator 12:00 Recovery key 16:00 Which is best? ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #encrypt #folder