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Hiding a title

What it is for

Section titled “What it is for”

Make a local title private — encrypted where it sits, and out of your library while the vault is locked.

The file half of a card's menu: Open containing folder, Edit a copy…, Rename / normalize…, Make private…, Exclude from library…, and under a separator Delete file from disk…

How to use it

Section titled “How to use it”
  1. Unlock the vault, then right-click the card of a local film or episode and choose Make private….
  2. Check the path, then click Make private.
  3. For a file that is not in your library, open the padlock menu and choose Make a file private….
  4. Drop a video into your private folder (set one under Private folder in Settings › Library › Folders) and Kaveo hides it once the copy finishes; while the vault is locked, the files wait.

The confirmation asking to move the title into the vault: the film's full path, what will happen to it, and Cancel beside Make private

Good to know

Section titled “Good to know”
  • On the same drive the film is moved, not copied. Encrypting needs its own size again in free space, or about 16 MB to encrypt it where it lies.
  • The title goes in whole and comes back whole: subtitles, NFO, -trailer file and pictures named like it, its poster, description and cast, your tags, My list, Favorite and playlists. What a visible title shares stays. A file that cannot go in stays put; the message counts them.
  • A film’s saved frame stays in Pictures, under the film’s name, once the film is hidden.
  • If Kaveo closes during a hide, your next unlock finishes it or puts the film back, and says so.
  • You can take it back out, byte for byte, with a valid licence — see Taking a title back out.