Password Protect External Drive? (for Mac use)

[Let's Sekuhara!]

I want to password protect the contents of an external hard disk.
I found only one article on such a thing, and of course the authors arrogantly assume you are a Windows user. So it's of no use to me. But I was hoping someone here knew of a way to do this on a Mac.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6774220_install-portable-hard-disk-drive.html

The disk is formatted as OS X Extended (Journaled).

I realize a password protected .dmg could be made and everything dragged in, but we're talking about 1TB of data here - seems like that would take forever to mount and just be impractical.

Please let me know of any ideas you guys have!

 

[GGJstudios]

I realize a password protected .dmg could be made and everything dragged in,

This is the only method I've seen that works. There is no password lock on a drive.

 

[mfram]

Use search. There are lots of other threads in this channel about this. The short answer is that it's quite easy to encrypt the entire drive.

 

[marzer]

I want to password protect the contents of an external hard disk.
I found only one article on such a thing, and of course the authors arrogantly assume you are a Windows user. So it's of no use to me. But I was hoping someone here knew of a way to do this on a Mac.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6774220_install-portable-hard-disk-drive.html

The disk is formatted as OS X Extended (Journaled).

I realize a password protected .dmg could be made and everything dragged in, but we're talking about 1TB of data here - seems like that would take forever to mount and just be impractical.

Please let me know of any ideas you guys have!

This might get you started:
http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/1935/lions-whole-disk-encryption

 

[Weaselboy]

I want to password protect the contents of an external hard disk.

I see from your previous posts you are on Mountain Lion. Just right click on the external drive in the Finder and select Encrypt. Done.

More info here.