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copied!<p>I have been investigating for some time now a way to prevent my user from accidently entering a data directory of my application.</p> <p>My application uses a folder to store a structured project. The folder internal structure is critic and should not be messed up. I would like my user to see this folder as a whole and not be able to open it (like a Mac bundle).</p> <p>Is there a way to do that on Windows?</p> <p><strong>Edit from current answers</strong></p> <p>Of course I am not trying to prevent my users from accessing their data, just protecting them from accidentally destroying the data integrity. So encryption or password protection are not needed. </p> <p>Thank you all for your .Net answers but unfortunately, this is mainly a C++ project without any dependency to the .Net framework.</p> <p>The data I am mentioning are not light, they are acquired images from an electronic microscope. These data can be huge (~100 MiB to ~1 GiB) so loading everything in memory is not an option. These are huge images so the storage must provide a way to read the data incrementally by accessing one file at a time without loading the whole archive in memory.</p> <p>Besides, the application is mainly legacy with some components we are not even responsible of. A solution that allows me to keep the current IO code is preferable.</p> <p>Shell Extension looks interesting, I will investigate the solution further.</p> <p>LarryF, can you elaborate on Filter Driver or DefineDOSDevice ? I am not familiar with these concepts.</p>

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