Protect My Files

There are several ways to protect your files from many threads

If your concern is about loosing your data, then you should create backups to restore your lost data in case of failure, if you are more concerned about other people accessing your private data, then you should encrypt your important data.

Zorin Back-up service.
ZorinOS (among other linux based distributions) provides a default backup manager which can be accessed from the zorin OS menu.

After your first boot, soon you will see a message dialog, which asks you about your backup preferences. As shown in the picture:

If you open the backup settings, then you can choose multiple backup options.

Zorin Encrypting services.
There are a few solutions to encrypt your data, in this case, we will use "encryptFS" to encrypt the home folder.

First of all, we'll need to install that package with the next sentence: sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils Then, when we know which user's home folder we want to encrypt we use the next sentence (make sure to have a backup, in case this don't work properly): sudo ecryptfs-migrate-home –u “username” Where "username" is the username whichs home folder we want to encrypt.

Then this message will be prompted: ======================================================================== Some Important Notes! 1. The file encryption appears to have completed successfully, however, test MUST LOGIN IMMEDIATELY, _BEFORE_THE_NEXT_REBOOT_, TO COMPLETE THE MIGRATION!!! 2. If test can log in and read and write their files, then the migration is complete, and you should remove /home/user.7y3X0vjM. Otherwise, restore /home/user.7y3X0vjM back to /home/test. 3. user should also run 'ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase' and record their randomly generated mount passphrase as soon as possible. 4. To ensure the integrity of all encrypted data on this system, you should also encrypted swap space with 'ecryptfs-setup-swap'. ========================================================================

And following those steps, you will have your /home/ directory encrypted and safe.