The title seems kind of weird and interesting but its definitely possible. You can easily hide important files inside a picture such that the file becomes totally impossible to trace. This Windows trick is not a new one and probably most of you would already know about it but for those who don't, it can come of great use anytime.
The file you want to save inside a picture can be of any extension e.g. exe, txt, mp3, avi or any other. This is probably the most secure way of hiding your private files in case you share your computer with your family members and you don't want them to get a peek of your hidden files.
You will be needing WinRAR to perform this trick but as it is one of the world's most commonly used software so I would assume that everyone reading this tutorial has got it already.
Here is how it goes:
- Open C: Drive and make a folder in it e.g. "sizlopedia". Put both the files i.e. the file that you want to hide and the image inside which you want to hide the file into this folder
- Select both the files and make a compressed RAR archive e.g. "secret.rar" out of them
- Open Run and type in "cmd" to open the Command Prompt. Now type "cd.." and press enter and repeat this once again. Type "cd sizlopedia" to open the folder (where "sizlopedia" is the folder that I am using in this tutorial)
- Type the command "copy /b maria.jpg + secret.rar safe.jpg" and press enter
- Thw new picture safe.jpg is now the nested Picture file which has the hidden file saved inside it. Change its extension from .jpg to .rar anytime to access or extract the hidden file
Definitely cool and amazing trick.
Sizlopedia is a technology blog created by Saad Hamid, a problogger from Pakistan.
How to get back the hidden file?
Nice trick DJ, I imagine that it will be useful to some of us out there.
Really amazing buddy . Good way to hide important files.
I think this trick only work for WinRAR, right? I try to use Winzip or Tugzip, but it can’t work.
How to retrieve the hidden file?
This is somethin really cool. I had posted about hiding text in images in my site few days back. But files in images is something really awesome!
You don’t need to create the archive out of both files (image + the document you want to hide). Just tried it, and this trick works even if the RAR contains only your secret file.
Great tip, though
How to retreat the hidden file?
Guys please read the 5th step again as it clearly tells you how to retreat the file.
Just change the extension of the image from .jpg to .rar anytime and you can extract the hidden file from it. I hope you understand now?
Interesting. It is also useful to send confidential files through internet.
This works with .7z’s.
Thanks this is a useful trick
Is there any other way I can hide the text file without using the command prompt?
I read it twice really carefully and I still can’t retreive the file. I tried both “raname .jpg .rar in cmd prompt and in normal windows with extensins displayed and it says that it’s corrupted/damaged when I try to open the archive.
Where can I get this software? What is it called? Can someone please provide me with some details? Thanks!
to get back ur files just rename it .rar an the rar version will appear
Dear Tod,
All you need is a windows system, download RAR file compression software and that’s it everything else is already built in. Then fallow the instructions above. Its that easy!
Aki do you have RAR software installed??? that maybe be problem
for anyone who doesnt get it:
you can do this with ANY files, even if there is more than two, and even if the are not jpg. All this does is make a rar archive ‘inside’ another file. also, instead of changing the extension to .rar, you can just open the file with winrar.
I was unable to extract the files when using RAR as the archive format, but was able to do so using ZIP as the format.
Thats really cool trick, i liked it a lot, thanks.