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How to Hide Files in a Picture

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Problem

Almost everyone knows that changing the properties of a file or folder could hide it, and protect our privacy. But this is also easy to crack. Here, we would show you another way to hide files: hide file in a picture.

Solution

Put the files you want to hide with a picture file in a folder, for example C:\TMP
Then patch these files to a compressed file, here we use WinRAR, so we could hide these files together, select all the file you want to hide, right click and Add to TMP.rar:
Press <Win> + <R>, type in cmd in the Run Dialogue, and click on OK button:
Type in these commands below in the command window to hide files in a picture:
Please note, you should replace the image file name (Pacific.jpg) and compressed file name (TMP.rar) with yours.
cd \
cd tmp
copy /b tmp.rar+Pacific.jpg Pacific.jpg /b

if you input these commands correctly, you would find your command window show these messages:
Then, the image file will be updated. To find the file you just hidden, simply right click on the picture and Open With WinRAR achiver:

If you could not find WinRAR archiver in the list, you can see Tips below to get help.
Now you would find that you have successfully hide a file in a picture, and also, you can get these hidden files back:

Tips

Files hidden by this method could not be found easily, but it is not recommended to hide big files in a picture because most picture files use very little disk space. So you can imagine that a JPEG picture file of 100MB, this file must have something wrong with it.
If you could not find "WinRAR archiver" in the "Open With" sub-menu in step 5, simply select "Choose Program..." ,and find WinRAR in the program list: