Password Protect a Folder?
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- iCanHazQBN
You would think after all this time, Apple would have the simple feature of password protecting a folder in Finder.
Am I not finding it? Do I have to resort to workarounds like creating a "Disk Image"?
This should have been standard 15 years ago. Simply applying a "lock" to a folder and one can only access it by entering in a password in a prompt box. How can this not exist after this much time???
- dbloc0
probably an app for that
- monospaced0
You create a disk image (Disk Utility) with protection/password/encryption and toss everything into it.
- prophetone0
doesn't filevault do this? maybe not.
http://www.apple.com/osx/what-is…
- drgs0
rm -rf *
- err0
Just tell your gf you like porn. Like alot!
- monospaced0
You would think after all this time, Microsoft would have the simple feature of password protecting a folder in Windows 8.
- monospaced0
Anyway, the idea of separate users (UNIX style) in OSX is the overall solution for this. You are logged in, and as long as you are, everything assigned to your user is accessible. You can't access files/folders from a different user. If you Get info on a folder, you simply click the "Lock" check box and any other user, besides you, would have to type in your password to access it. You can also set Permissions through the Get Info dialogue.
- animatedgif0
.dmg is a very elegant solution to the problem and keeps the filesystem self contained.
"Would that file be compatible with windows?"
Since when has Windows supported basic OS functions like mounting a disk image at all?Shits fucking Babby's first OS