How much safer is red box instead of orange box?

I didn't even know you could do this. So could I have for example NormalFilePath set for my Firefox profile folder but use WriteFilePath to change/write to specific files in the same profile folder?

 

I knew this would work for this example but I didn't think it would when the path is multiple levels deep, but it does.

In a data protected sandbox, Sandboxie creates the intermediate folders (in the sandbox) for you, whereas it doesn't in a non-data protected sandbox.

In other words, in a data protected sandbox I could just use:

Code:

OpenFilePath=E:\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3

Sandboxie automatically generates the folders E, Folder1 and Folder 2 in the sandbox (and I can't view what's in the real folders) so I'm only browsing the real Folder3.

Whereas in a non data protected sandbox (with a rule of 'ClosedFilePath=E:\Folder1') you'd need to create the folder structure yourself, or build it using individual rules:

Code:

WriteFilePath=|E:\Folder1\
WriteFilePath=|E:\Folder1\Folder2

Which could get really messy.

I think the problem is I'm trying to build them in a way where I could switch if necessary, but it's not that easy.

Thanks for the help.