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hide folders from other users
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Set up a separate user account for anyone using your Mac. They won't have access to your user files.
Which folders? As you know, normally preferences/settings and your documents are inside your home folder, thus the folders outside of it are for the OS and other users.
Anyway, have you tried limiting access or hiding them via Terminal (though it might not work with system folders)?
Anyway, have you tried limiting access or hiding them via Terminal (though it might not work with system folders)?
when you say other users to you mean just other people that use it signed in as you? or do you mean people signed in as different "users"
If you put them in the /Users/yourusername folder, they won't be accessible to others.
Tell me what kind of folders you are trying to hide? It might be possible to place them inside a encrypted disk image. Give this a look.
Thanx but i don't want to change the location of the folders because i don't want time machine to get "messed up" (i suppose that it will start to make new backups if those folders are relocated right?).
Im trying to find the easiest possible way without any folder disordering what soever!
Time Machine won't have problems if you put user data in the proper folders. Your user files/folders should be under your user account, anyway. That's the way Mac OS X is designed to work.
Yeah they can be seen, they are folders i have added in my user name folder, it prolly is strange cause other folders (downloads, documents etc) have the red minus sign on and you cannot see inside!
Yeah they can be seen, they are folders i have added in my user name folder, it prolly is strange cause other folders (downloads, documents etc) have the red minus sign on and you cannot see inside!
Checked permissions of those folders yet?
How to Set File Permissions in Mac OS X
You must set READ & WRITE to your user account only. As those folders where originally located in the Macintosh HD root directory, they have read & write permissions for all users (since they are not system files/folders).
Is that understandable?
As you can see, from your screenshot, everyone can read it. The group "staff" is okay, since those are admins as far as I know and not standard users.