Is it possible to track action in public folder?

[Kinji]

Hello -
I just realized I had important documents in my public folder on my macbook (I put them there from my iMac but forgot to take them out of the folder). I then realized that I had my access set so anyone could read my folder. I'm stupid for not paying more attention to this, but I am wondering if there is anyway you can tell if the folder has been accessed or if any files were copied from it. I can see other computers sometimes when I am on certain networks. Due to the nature of these documents, it is important that I know. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Kinji

 

[Kinji]

Forgot to mention I'm running Leopard 10.5.4

 

[Kinji]

One more piece of info - when I turned off file sharing it prompted me that users may be connected and I could set a timer before the connection shut down. Does this mean that someone was definitely connected or does this prompt always come up just as a warning?

Also, is there a way to view the history of the permissions set for the folder? It was about a month ago that I initially put the documents on my public folder, but within the past few days I was messing around with access permissions to the public folder because I was having trouble getting Back to my Mac to work between my macbook and imac. So, I may have only had these permissions wide open for everyone to read for only a few days. Now I am wondering if there is a way to check the history of these permissions. Any feedback would be much appreciated. This anxiety of not knowing if my files were accessed is killing me!

 

[Consultant]

You should use DROP BOX or actually log into the computer next time.

 

[SC68Cal]

Tracker

 

[Kinji]

But can Tracker retroactively track activity?

Also, do you know about the timer prompt when I turned off file sharing- does this suggest someone was connected?

 

[mason.kramer]

No, you can't get this information anymore. It's not logged anywhere.

 

[Kinji]

thanks for your replies.

Kinji