Usually inorder to hide our personal files and folders with the help of third party software. But it is irritating to see everytime we need to open the software to access our personal files. So, here’s a simple procedure to hide any files in an image file.
This process does not require any third party app, all we need is cmd (command prompt).
Before we move further , there are something that we need to perform before hiding. We need WinRar Installed on your PC. So if you already have WinRar archiver in your pc, which most of us do have, you can proceed with below steps:
1)Create a folder with files that you would like to Hide in an Image file, Lets say the folder name is “Files”. Now Right Click on the folder and select add to archive. Select RAR as Archive format and Click OK.
2) You will now see a rar file with name files, Now say you have an image with name “image.jpg” in which we will hide these files. Copy both Files.rar and image.jpg and paste them in ” C” or “D” Drive.
3) Next Open CMD, Search for CMD and open it. If you files are in “D” drive then Type D: and press Enter. Now Type in this Code as it is copy /b image.jpg + files.rar new.jpg and press Enter.
4) If you have done everything right till now, then you will see something Similar like below Picture. I had the file in E: so i initially typed E: to change the location to E drive.
(To change the location of the drive in cmd, just add the desired letter followed by a colon and press enter)
Incase if it is in C drive, C:
Incase if it is in D drive, D:
Incase if it is in E drive, E:
5) Navigate to the location where you saved the file and you will see one for file added with name New.jpg.
Ok So now we have a new file but next ? If you notice you will see the size of the new file has increased and if you open the new.jpg file it will show you just the picture, So you will as where the other files gone which we tried to hide inside this image ?
NOTE: If you open the New.jpg file, it will just show you the image but not the hidden files.
To Access the files,
We know that the file is in jpg format so we will first Open WinRar archiver,
Click on File -> Open archive.
Now Navigate to the Path where you have saved new.jpg file which will be Drive “D” Now make sure to select All Files from the drop down, so that it displays the new.jpg file too. Select it and Click on Open, There you will see a folder with name files, Open it and there are your Hidden files.
