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How to view and edit photos on windows without leaving a trace? (lemmy.zip)
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I would like to do the following on my windows (10 or 11) computer:

  • Move photos from an SD card into a mounted veracrypt volume.
  • Edit photos inside the veracrypt volume using RawTherapee.
  • View the edited photos inside the veracrypt volume.

I would like that whenever I unmount the veracrypt volume, there is no trace of the photo files left on the computer.

I already noticed that the "recent files" feature of windows explorer stores the path name and a thumbnail of a picture that was opened with photo viewer for example. That is not good.

Are there other pitfalls like this I need to watch out for?

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[โ€“] entwine413@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe so.

But seriously, if I don't want Windows spying on me for a task, I wouldn't use Windows for that task.

There's no way I could ever trust the modern Windows OS to not be monitoring me, regardless of the settings I've applied. And I'm a systems engineer with nearly 2 decades of Windows administration under my belt.

Unless you're running an enterprise license, there's telemetry shit you literally can't turn off.

The beauty of a live ISO is that when you turn your computer off, there's no trace left.

I mean, I suppose you could do the transfer on a computer physically unable to connect to the Internet and do a clean install of Windows after, but that's way more work than is necessary.

[โ€“] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I don't use Windows. There was even a time for Work where our enterprise CAD/CAM had a Linux version and I could run Linux on my workstation. Sadly they removed the GUI support, so we still can use it for batch processing CAD data, and the PLM system still has Linux