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GanChan

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I want to protect personal data and business information on my Mac, so of course I've given serious thought to FireVaulting it. But this process will grind everything to a near-halt for hours, so I'm wondering now whether simply encrypting the sensitive folders would be just as good. One fringe benefit, it seems to me, is that even if I forget the password, I'd be locked out of those folders but the computer itself would still be usable.....

Anyone else decide to go the folder route instead of the whole-disk route?
 
OS X doesn't offer folder-level encryption.

You can make a disk image in Disk Utility, and encrypt the disk image. Copy your sensitive folders to the disk-image. Double-click to mount it; Eject to unmount it. After confirming all files OK on disk image, delete original folders.

To ensure the system requires a manually entered password, make sure you DO NOT store the disk-image's password in your keychain.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22247
 
OS X doesn't offer folder-level encryption.

You can make a disk image in Disk Utility, and encrypt the disk image. Copy your sensitive folders to the disk-image. Double-click to mount it; Eject to unmount it. After confirming all files OK on disk image, delete original folders.

To ensure the system requires a manually entered password, make sure you DO NOT store the disk-image's password in your keychain.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22247

Yes, that's how I would want to do it, I think.
 
Full-disk encryption is IMO preferable due to the fact that files can end up outside of the folders. The system stores temporary copies of files elsewhere.
 
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