How do you hide your stories on your own computer?

[AG31]

An interesting thread, started by @TheArsonist, about Google's behavior re Google Docs has been active recently. In it some folks expressed uneasiness about using any form of off-site storage for their stories. I share that feeling, not, perhaps, for any better reason than that I just don't like layers between me and my stuff. For instance, I don't "store" passwords.

Anyway, I'm curious about the strategies you use if you want to keep your stories on your computer (or a thumb drive, or... or...) but you don't want your family to stumble upon them, especially your heirs who may have legitimate reasons to explore your computer. Here's my method.

I made a "temp" folder underneath another folder that hasn't been used in years. I copied the contents of a real temp folder from Users/<my name>/appdata/local/temp into it. Every few months I copy the top couple of dozen or so (by date) from the MS folder to my erotica folder. Within that folder I name my stories with initials buried in the first few characters of nonsense. So Twelve Maxbridge Street might be named @#TxxM35trrrrr.dlcx. All extensions have an l for the second character. So a jpg is a jlg. After using it I sort by date and close it.

If you were my heir, would you find my stories?????

Do any of you go to such lengths?

 

[Djmac1031]

I just label the folder "Embarrassing Porn Collection. Delete Upon My Death."

Look, we all have those folders we don't want family members seeing. Easier just to tell them right up front "don't open this just delete."

 

[AchtungNight]

No. I’m the only one who uses my computer, and the desktop is password protected in general but I don’t go any further than that. And I’m not ashamed of my stories either. I wouldn’t be writing them if I was. If someone finds them and doesn’t like them, I remind them I have the right to freedom of thought and expression, I’ve done nothing illegal, take it from there.

 

[AlinaX]

Hiding files in folders is a bit pointless because searches can find them easily, sometimes accidentally.

On Mac OS you can create and mount password-protected disk images. I imagine that should be possible on Windows too...

... Bitlocker Encrypted Container File, maybe?

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't hide them. I'm a writer; my SO understand I write smut. Donnie doesn't have access to my computer. My screen lock prevents him from exploring it. He has a laptop for his books, which I read to him. I mean, he's a toddler. Why would he be reading smut yet?

 

[StillStunned]

"Taxes 2007 - road tax, VAT, insurance premiums"

(But actually I'm like Millie: the only other person who could possibly access my computer is my wife, and she's usually sitting next to me while I'm writing.)

 

[dadadadiox]

I hide nothing since most of what I write is relatively clean but if someone happens across my soft porn and erotic content they’ll learn a hard lesson about snooping.

Imagine the ‘ewwww’ factor in finding your parent's porn. Since my partner DGAF and I doubt my sons would bother to look… it’s a non-issue.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't hide mine. My daughters are adults and on their own, and I lock my office whenever the grandkids come over because that's where I keep my guns and knife collection, so no chance of them getting on my PC.

The wife knows what I write so it really doesn't matter.

 

[Mastered_again]

No need. Mine are on my laptop. Hubby's the IT department, keeping it up to date on a monthly basis. I'm hopeless at that. He could read everything he wanted, but has honored his pledge to await publication.

 

[Comshaw]

Others use my computer (like my grandson and daughter) so I do hide them. I use a little program called Lockbox. It won't hide files from a dedicated computer-literate person, but for the average user it works fine. It gives the user a lot of options, like choosing hot buttons to bring up the program. My wife knows how to get to it because I don't keep my porn writing from her, and because I'm 74, in case she needs to delete them if I can't.

Comshaw

 

[onehitwanda]

Steganography.

I hide my writing in between extreme elf/dragon gang-bang porn and bad star-wars slash fiction. My theory is that in the unlikely event that someone breaks into my home and guesses my password, they'll be blind and gagging long before they find my stories.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Steganography.

I hide my writing in between extreme elf/dragon gang-bang porn and bad star-wars slash fiction. My theory is that in the unlikely event that someone breaks into my home and guesses my password, they'll be blind and gagging long before they find my stories.

Why, what else are they going to find in your home?

I write on a lock screen kindle, so right now that's private. Anything on the home computer goes two or three layers down in amongst directories, one for each year, of running a hobby business. I turn the files and directories to "Hidden", so they're there if anyone really looks, after I die, but in the meantime, they're hidden. But since I'm not planning to die soon, I might have a better method by then.

 

[onehitwanda]

Why, what else are they going to find in your home?

a life size Real Doll model of Kate Winslet

 

[Bramblethorn]

I keep mine on a USB stick inside an egg inside the nest of a duck that swims in a well inside a church on an island inside a far-off lake. With a backup in a hole in the ground near a tree by a river. It's not the most convenient but it gets me out of the house.

Hiding files in folders is a bit pointless because searches can find them easily, sometimes accidentally.

And most OSes these days have some sort of "most recently changed" view that can give away a lot.

a life size Real Doll model of Kate Winslet

Small font made me misread this in a rather alarming way as "a life size Real Doll made of Kate Winslet". I am glad we don't have to have The Talk.

 

[ElectricBlue]

a life size Real Doll model of Kate Winslet

Why does that not surprise me? Did you get the one with the voice chip, "Ooo, Wanda!"

 

[Lifestyle66]

My daughter already knows my LitE profile name and has reviewed some of my stories. So, all of our kids would know what I write.

Now, there are some photos they may not want to see if I'm dead (and other info). But my wife knows to keep them off my computer and file server. Now if we're BOTH dead, ... the kids might be surprised. But they're all grownups.

 

[Lovecraft_Lore]

I store all mine on a USB stick and don't write anything literotica related on the work computer.

We had one woman at work who was storing everything on her "personal" drive. Her taxes, 1,000 pics of her kids and pets, some private time pics of her and her BF, billing records, and everything else. It was all stored on the cloud, anyone else working from the office had access at anytime just by going into the folder with her name on it.

 

[Privates1stClass]

I put my LIT stories on an encrypted thumb drive with a long, difficult password. I seriously doubt anyone would be able to crack it. If they do, well--it's on them.

 

[bumpercars]

C:/MyName/Smut/Stories

 

[ChuckWolf]

I don't really hide them, however, I do save them in my email folders, just in case they get lost from this site or my PC.

No one else has access to my PC, so I'm not really worried about snoops.

 

[ChuckWolf]

you don't want your family to stumble upon them, especially your heirs who may have legitimate reasons to explore your computer.

If you're dead, you have bigger concerns than your friends/family stumbling across your porn.

 

[StillStunned]

My wife says that if I die first she's going to read out some of my stories at my funeral. So that people can get to know the "real me".

 

[nice90sguy]

I'm really paranoid, so I encrypt my stories with the password "password" , which is not as easy to guess as people think.

 

[AchtungNight]

My wife says that if I die first she's going to read out some of my stories at my funeral. So that people can get to know the "real me".

Your stories are all I know of you- well, that and your presence on these boards. So perhaps I know the real you already. Heh.

 

[TheLobster]

I'm really paranoid, so I encrypt my stories with the password "password" , which is not as easy to guess as people think.

I prefer “12345” which I also use as the combination on my luggage.