Password on file or folder

[ted124b]

Is it possible to secure a file or group of files in a folder with a password to prevent others from accessing them? I have a login password and diskvault enabled but i am worried about other uses accessing files while i am logged in...can i make a folder with all my banking information or documents from work secure with a password for instance?

[mad jew]

Maybe look at eyeHide (http://www.jaanpatterson.com/eyeHide.html) or safeThis (http://www.jaanpatterson.com/safeThis.html), both from the same developer. :)

[grapes911]

PGP (http://www.pgp.com/)!!! Pretty much as secure as it gets.

There is also a free version under the gnu license.
http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/

[gekko513]

Create an encrypted disk image with Disk Utility.

[Fairly]

Is it possible to secure a file or group of files in a folder with a password to prevent others from accessing them? I have a login password and diskvault enabled but i am worried about other uses accessing files while i am logged in...can i make a folder with all my banking information or documents from work secure with a password for instance?
No. And the suggested applications are rip-offs.

[panoz7]

No. And the suggested applications are rip-offs.

Encrypted disk images do just what the OP's asking.

[Gymnut]

http://soramimi-works.net/software.shtml#lockmebaby

LockMeBaby!

[SC68Cal]

EDIT: Good god this thread is two years old

[jsw]

Create an encrypted disk image with Disk Utility.
Specific instructions for created an encrypted, password-protected folder:


Open Applications->Utilities->Disk Utility.
Click the "New Image" icon in the toolbar (or use Images->New...->Blank Image)
Fill in "Save as:" field with a name.
Select an appropriate size
Set the excryption to AES-128
Keep the format as "read/write disk image"
Click "Create"
You'll be prompted for a password - enter one
Very important: Unselect "Remember password (add to Keychain)" before clicking OK to set the password.


This creates the password-protected .dmg file. Double-click it to open it (supply the password, and don't opt to store it in your keychain, or else anyone in your account can open it). It then looks like a mounted disk image - drag things into/out of it. Eject it to return it to it's password-protected state.

You can email a copy of it anywhere, back it up, whatever... it's safe until you unlock/mount it with the password, and safe again once you "eject" the mounted image.

[mad jew]

Madjew, I'm disappointed in you.


My most heartfelt apologies. It was two years ago and I was young and foolish.

[SC68Cal]

My most heartfelt apologies. It was two years ago and I was young and foolish.


Hmm. So it was! I retract my statements.

Why was this thread resurrected?!?!?!?!?? Good lord this was before I registered! I sense a Time Paradox!

[Sbrocket]

Someone's been testing Time Machine v2.0 methinks.... :p