How to hide RAR or ZIP files in a jpg picture.

January 11th, 2009 | by admin |

If you have got lots of private data and your computer is being used by some other peoples like your brother or sister and you are worried about your data and don’t want anybody else to see your data then this trick is for you.You can easily hide hide RAR or ZIP files in a jpg picture without installing any software.

To hide RAR or ZIP files in a jpg picture follow the steps given below.

1. Make a new folder named test on your desktop.(You can create folder with any name i have used test to simplify the procedure)

2. Save the picture of choice to newly create test folder.

3. Copy existing or Make a new .rar or .zip folder on test folder.

4. If .rar or .zip newly created then Add the files you want to hide into the .zip or .rar

5. Click start menu, run, cmd.

6. In Command Prompt type

cd desktop

cd test

after issuing the above commands you will be in the newly create test folder.

7. Now type in copy /b picturename.jpg + filename.rar outputfilename.jpg

(Here picturename.jpg is the name of picture you have copied in test folder in step 2.filename.rar is the name of rar(Incase of ZIP change it to .zip) file you have copied in step 3.outputfilename.jpg is the name of output picture file this will be the file which has the RAR or ZIP file hidden into.

8. Now there should be the outputed file name with a .jpg extension on the test folder.
( Do not close Command Prompt just yet )

9. Double click it to open the picture and check it out.

10. When your done looking, and want to view the hidden files
Type: ren outputfilename.jpg outputfilename.rar or zip