How do I create a password protected ZIP archive?

Disk Utility is your best friend!!!!!


1. Open disk utility
2. File>New>Blank Disk Image
3. Select name, & size. Encryption will be 128, or 256 whatever you choose (if you choose none you cannot choose a password). Image format you can choose a spare partition, which makes the disk size only as large as the items in it(think of it as a flash drive if you choose sparse).
4. Click "create"

hope this helps

DoFoT9 said:

Disk Utility is your best friend!!!!!


1. Open disk utility
2. File>New>Blank Disk Image
3. Select name, & size. Encryption will be 128, or 256 whatever you choose (if you choose none you cannot choose a password). Image format you can choose a spare partition, which makes the disk size only as large as the items in it(think of it as a flash drive if you choose sparse).
4. Click "create"

hope this helps

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This is exactly what I do for private stuff; works awesome!

Chase R said:

This is exactly what I do for private stuff; works awesome!

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good eh!!!

DoFoT9 said:

2. File>New>Blank Disk Image

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But that's not what the OP asked for... maybe he wants to send something password protected over to a friend using Windows. A disk image would be of no great use, but a .zip would.

pit29 said:

But that's not what the OP asked for... maybe he wants to send something password protected over to a friend using Windows. A disk image would be of no great use, but a .zip would.

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well then he should download UnRarX then shouldnt he!!!

HERE!

DoFoT9 said:

well then he should download UnRarX then shouldnt he!!!

HERE!

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Does that allow you to create encrypted .zip files though???

How do you rar in unrarx? I can only seem to unrar in it. it is called UNRARx.

Chase R said:

Does that allow you to create encrypted .zip files though???

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baha i have no idea.

If you're not afraid of the Terminal you can do this through there.
It'll ask for a password then to verify password and ta da.

almost 4 years have passed and theres still no program to create a password protected zip?

i am afraid of terminal actually, totally refuse to use it, its why i bought a mac to simplify things
copying: zip -e zipname.zip file1.txt other.doc picture.jpg into terminal gives
zip warning: name not matched: file1.txt
zip warning: name not matched: other.doc
zip warning: name not matched: picture.jpg

zip error: Nothing to do! (zipname.zip)

probably because im not trying to zip picture.jpg or file1.txt and how is it supposed to know where my file is located?
i dont understand terminal only english!


unarchiver and the other unrarx both do the opposite of what i want

and disk utility is not what i want

looks like i need to ebay this imac junk and buy a pc then

Thera are a few actually. For instance:

Keka (free) http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32512/keka
or Archiver (shareware) http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33398/archiver

gj.george said:

Thera are a few actually. For instance:

Keka (free) http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32512/keka
or Archiver (shareware) http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33398/archiver

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There is also Stuff it but that costs money.

just take the file on a windows machine (pc, bootcamp, virtual) and use winrar

Password protected Zip files

Use the terminal and enter "zip -ejr [name] [path to folder]" less the quotes. As an example zip -ejr test \Desktop\zipmeup

The zip will also be encrypted and the command will prompt you for a password as part of the creation.