Preventing ”secret” files from popping up

[NoOp]

On 10/30/2012 01:40 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 30 October 2012 03:21, NoOp ...
>> However if you've sensitive files, and
>> you've put them in a Truecrypt file, and have to purposely open
>> Truecrypt and then that file to get at them, I suspect that Johnny will
>> figure out how to 'clean' and/or block the crumb bits like
>> ~/.recently-used ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
>> ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite etc. Whew... how's that for a
>> run-on sentence :-)
> 
> Is that not effectively what the settings in  System Settings >
> Privacy on the Files tab do, as was discussed earlier in the thread?
> 
> Colin
> 

Partially. That doesn't stop zeitgeist from writing to
~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel and
~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite. So your 'history' is still
available. Also, I found that unless you specifically add the
folder/directory that you don't want shown (example /Video) in
System|Privacy|Files, Dash will still show the files in that folder
automatically when you click on the 'Video' icon. Unfortunately, that
also blocks all Dash searches into your local ~/Video folder & instead
only performs online searches only (Amazon, YouTube, TED, etc)...
whether you like it or not.