I have recently bought a laptop running on Windows 8. Has anything changed with respect to the ability to embed files within folders (see my question of November 5th 2010). The biggest impact for me would be security back-up. If I can embed all my important files for back-up into a single back-up folder then it would be very easy simply to drag this folder into, for example, a security vault on a SanDisk to have the latest version of each file encrypted as a back-up. This would save a lot of time. Any chance of this any time soon?

Watling

You didnt join until Jan 29, 2012 so you have no question from November 5th 2010.  We need more specific information in order to be of any use.

The only way I now how to accomplish this, create a data base using My SQL or something like it,  Create a container of a drive you no longer need or a spare drive.

Use file history and include all the drives you need to backup in your libraries. You will have your complete file history in a container. You can then embed the container file as a code <connectionStrings>
  <addname="ConnectionName"
    connectionString="Data Source=.\SQL;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|filehistorydb.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>or use the MySQL container as the source of your important files.

Edit:

There are few programs that will do the job for you but I have not tested any of these

• Edited by colakid 21 hours 28 minutes ago