Sherpadog, fair enough with the detail question, I wasn't sure if you were looking at the temp file it stores while opening the carrier and then destroys it or something I missed. Anyhow, thanks for giving me a heads up, the Truecrypt may be the way to go but I would end up storing the file with the masker program for extra security because I do believe that hiding the file is definitely a help in securing your information. I guess I've never ran into problems with Masker because the information was hidden in a Jpg or mp3 or what have you a you need to know the exact file in order to use the program to extract it. Even with the program, if you don't know what file it is, it won't tell you if it's encrypted or not. So if Truecrypt allows you to store a file, you should be able to take that file and store it in a carrier file.

I don't like hiding them into MP3's because everybody loves to steal music, I can just see everybody passing all your info around listening it in cars,etc...