How To Password Protect Files on OS X

This tutorial explains how to easily protect files under a password in OS X. Using 256 bit encryption, this is very secure.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• OS X
• Mac
• Apple
• Hack
• Mod
• Leopard
• password
• safe
• dmg
• disk
• image
• fast
• files

[MotoGuy181]

I'm on a Macbook Pro running Lion.. does this still work? because i click the DMG file and it doesn't do anything, it asks for password but another icon does not show uup on my my desktop please help..

[mac4tw]

@MotoGuy181 it still works. you might have it set to not should hard drives on the desktop. wherever you go to access a flash drive or external hard drive, that is where the dmg will pop up

[jonathanparrish]

I did all the steps and at the very end when I just have the password protected file on my desktop. I've ejected the mounted thing and I click on the file and put in my password. It remounts the disk image and I then click on it and there is my file but I have to eject the disk image everytime and it stays unlocked. Can you help me understand where I went wrong?

[mac4tw]

@jonathanparrish you are saving the password in your keychain. Just go into the keychain and delete the password. Then when it asks if you want to save it, choose no, and you will have to enter the password every time

[LavenderBlondee]

yeeeeees thankyou

[mac4tw]

@LavenderBlondee make sure you remember to uncheck the "remember password in keychain" box and itll ask for the password

[juventus619]

Can the image file you created with a password be deleted by anyone or will it ask for the password again?

[alonsouklm]

awesome, worked perfect!

[tylerwright118]

cheers bro

[PaolaAngeel3]

THANK YOU ALOT... it actually helped me alot... better then the other videos ;D hahaha thankssssss

[wb0220]

thanks, really helped!

[BlooOcean]

Thanks for the great tutorial!!~