www.sandboxie.com :: View topic - Can anything in the Sandbox access my entire Hard Drive?

Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:42 pm

Helper wrote:

tonyseeking wrote:

So Write Only Access means that nothing in the SBIE can read or access that folder?

Write-Only Access means that the files in the specified folder, and all sub-folders that may exist there, are hidden from the sandboxed program.
The folder itself can be accessed, by the sandboxed program. It just looks like it's empty.
So nothing can be read from that folder or any sub-folders, and the sandboxed program does not receive any error message when it tries to read from that folder.

Normally, with a folder that is specified as Write-Only Access, a sandboxed program will be able to save files to that folder. But the saved files will be in the corresponding folder that's inside of the sandbox, not the folder that's outside of the sandbox.
So if desired, you can specify that folder as a Quick Recovery folder, and you can recover the files outside of the sandbox to the "real" folder, if you want to.

Ok thanks