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Passwording Folders....
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In my case, it was a folder of secret holiday gift-shopping notes. I used the application named Disk Utility (in the Utilities subfolder of the Applications folder) to create a read/write blank disk image with password protection. I put all of my shopping files in there.
To open the disk image, I'd double click it and type the password. When I was done editing files, I'd unmount the disk. Nobody could read those files except when I had the disk image open.
To open the disk image, I'd double click it and type the password. When I was done editing files, I'd unmount the disk. Nobody could read those files except when I had the disk image open.
If there's a password, people will be suspicious! Here are a couple ways to hide stuff more discretely:
1. If you're comfortable with Terminal, rename the folder .name or any name beginning with a period. It will then be invisible and only accessible from the Terminal with an ls -a. I can give you more info on this if you want.
2. If you're not comfortable with Terminal, you can simply choose an application (should work with any app), control click on it, select Show Package Contents and then just move your folder there.
The contents of your folder using either of these methods will never show up in any Spotlight search, and you won't have to type any passwords. Happy pornings!
1. If you're comfortable with Terminal, rename the folder .name or any name beginning with a period. It will then be invisible and only accessible from the Terminal with an ls -a. I can give you more info on this if you want.
2. If you're not comfortable with Terminal, you can simply choose an application (should work with any app), control click on it, select Show Package Contents and then just move your folder there.
The contents of your folder using either of these methods will never show up in any Spotlight search, and you won't have to type any passwords. Happy pornings!
I just learned about doing that yesterday, if you do that then nobody would think to look there, most people don't really know about that or would never look in there, also with lots of apps on your computer its even more unlikely that anybody would find it, just make sure you dont forget where you put it.
If you did loose it i guess you could go View > Arrange By > Size and see which app seems to be too large
