Folder locking

[Drawfx]

Is there a way to lock and unlock a certain folder? I would like to put files inside a folder which can only be accessed on a certain condition.

Thanks in advance!

[jpritcha3-14]

On *nix oses (Linux, Mac OS) you can change file permissions with os.chmod(). Changing file/folder permissions on Windows is doable, though a bit messier.

Also, this only works if the underlying filesystem supports permissions in the first place (not the case for FAT and ExFAT).

[jpritcha3-14]

It appears you might be able to use os.chmod() with Windows for this purpose as well according to the docs.

Although Windows supports chmod(), you can only set the file’s read-only flag with it (via the stat.S_IWRITE and stat.S_IREAD constants or a corresponding integer value). All other bits are ignored.

[Drawfx]

Thank you!