Hi Peter,
note from the developers:
1 – BAD NAME: “Confidential” is a horrible name because the word already has a plethora of meanings, and do I really want a subdirectory on my computer named “Confidential” if I do not have one already — hello, any hacker / cracker will be drawn to that like flies to honey. I suggest “Commander Tagger” ( inside joke referring to the movie Galaxy Quest ), or “Gate Keeper” or “AtoZ Sorter” or something arbitrary like GIDNORK ( really, I just randomly typed that ).
Ok :)
Any hacker that access that subdirectory won’t find anything interesting as the config files and the database files are in %appdata%\Confidential
2 – NOT ENOUGH PRE-INFO TO INSTALL: This is a raw programming tool for full-time-paid administrators who have way too much time on their hands, and involves making decisions on installation that only someone with vast experience with this software can make, they should simplify and automate, rather than expect me to know why I want to name a database without characters that I always use when naming other files ( no hyphens permitted ! ), or put the database in a location that … should I want this portable on a USB thumb drive or in a location outside my filing system, such as the root, or in the cloud, or where? I don’t know. How will I use the database, how will I back it up, how will I use it after crash recovery, how will I use it when I migrate to my next generation computers and also migrate my data, how will I inspect drives about to leave my property before they go to insure they are “clean”, how will I catalog my offline backup disks and discs and thumbdrives? Will it understand the contents of zip and 7z ( required so Windows 10 does not deny access to collected and compressed zipped data ) file storage … and so on?
Well yes, we could have done a better job in the copywriting of the promo…
But about the database part, the software is designed so that users just click the big blue GO button at first launch (which is what 99% of them do)… I recommend everyone to stick to pressing the GO button (hopefully after having read the text around it), try the “Local” mode and follow the tutorials.
3 – TOO COMPLICATED AND ARCANE: This is a raw programming tool for full-time-paid administrators who have way too much time on their hands, and involves making decisions on installation that only someone with vast experience with this software can make, ( didn’t I write that already ? ), and it’s third complaint about my attempted installation is a cryptic and unresolvable message:
See above.
“… Error … A network related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. ( provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server / Instance Specified ) … Sql Exception Number = -1 …”
I guess this is connected with my answer from above: if you try the local option the software will run using Microsoft SQL LocalDb in a transparent way, and you shouldn’t get any connection error.
4 – INSECURE ! : Their installation file has no file date in the security certificate, let’s get dangerous, risky, and unauthored, able to be scammed!
This is what puzzled me the most, as we’ve never heard about this complain before :-)
Indeed I found an article about this, we’ll try to get this sorted in the next builds. In the meanwhile, while there is no timestamp, the installer is digitally signed (with a Comodo signature that is valid for the next year or so) and as long you got the installer from Confidential.tech it should be ours :-)
5 – WRONG HELP: See their web pages and help for more, but get ready to stop all other human activities ( eating, sleeping ) until you figure this out and master it, and prepare to uninstall and reinstall it at least 3 times over 3 months as you realize only after each installation attempt that there is way more to each installation decision than they were able to pre-warn you about, and you have to start over from scratch to reconfigure everything using your newly acquired experience.
As above, I recommend you press the GO button at first launch.
They direct you to
[ https ://tabbles. net/wiki/index.php?title=Tabbles_Manual_(EN)#Setting_up_Tabbles ]
yes “Tabbles” in order to figure out their “Confidential” program … good luck imagining your own version of “Tabbles” instructions and applying them to their “Confidential” program.
That’s correct: as someone else pointed out, Confidential is indeed a “fork” of Tabbles, done by the same people as re-branding activity. This was based on GE use case of Tabbles and Confidential is in fact a super-set of features of Tabbles (it includes the explorer-tags, so you have 4 tags that you can assign from Windows Explorer’s Context menu and see in Windows Explorer when browsing). Since the software is the same (and the company behind it is the same) we figure we could stick to a single user manual.
6 – WHY ? : And for what .. for GDPR General Data Protection Regulations compliance? Uh huh. Meaning … ?
On confidential.tech you read “GDPR solution for unstructured data”. I guess you have heard about GDPR… again we could have done a better job with the copyright here, but I recommend you have a look at our website too.
Regards,
Andrea