How to hide files in a image..??
You will be amazed and surprised that how can files
be hidden behind a image, but that’s true. For the purpose of secrecy and
privacy, there are the ways by which you can actually hide as many files and folders
of any size
You will need to have either WinZip
or WinRAR installed on your computer. You can download either of these two off
the Internet and use them.
Create a folder on your hard drive, (If you don’t know how to go to
specific folder in CMD, then make the folder in the D drive itself, I will
help) and put in all of the files that you want to hide into that folder. Also,
place the image that you will be using to hide the files in.
Now select all of the files that you
want to hide, right-click on them, and choose the option to add them to a compressed ZIP or RAR file. Only select the files you want to hide, not the picture. Name it
whatever you want, i.e. “abcde.zip”.
Now you should have a folder that
looks something like this with files, a image, and a compressed archive:
Now here’s the fun part! Click on Start,
and then click on Run. Type in “CMD” without the quotes and
press Enter. You should now see the command prompt window open.
Type in “D:” without quotes and press enter. Then type CD and
the directory name that you created, i.e. “CD XYZ“.
Now type in the following line: “copy
/b abc.png + abcde.zip abc.png” and press Enter. Do not
use the quotes.
Just make sure that you check the file extension on
the compressed file,
whether it is .ZIP or .RAR and the extension of image, whether it is png or jpg
or any other as you have to type out the entire file name with extension in the
command
And that’s it! The picture file will have been
updated with the compressed archive inside! You can actually check the file
size of the picture and see that it has increased by the same amount as the
size of the archive.
You can access your hidden file in two ways. Firstly,
simply change the extension to .RAR or .ZIP and open the file using WinRAR or
WinZIP. Secondly, you can just right-click on the image and choose Open
With and then scroll down to WinRAR/WinZIP.
Either way, you’ll see your hidden files show up that you can then extract out.
That’s it! That is all it
takes to hide files inside picture files! It’s a great way simply because not
many people know it’s possible and no one even thinks about a picture as having
to the ability to “hide” files.