{"id":3058,"date":"2013-09-25T02:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2013-09-25T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:58:11","slug":"how-to-password-protect-a-folder-in-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-password-protect-a-folder-in-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Password Protect A Folder in Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have confidential data in your Mac that needs to be locked with a passwords to prevent unwanted access? If you’re using a Windows computer, you need to use some third-party software such as Protect My Folders<\/a> to achieve this. But things get much more easier with a Mac computer. Apple has provided a way to password protect certain files and folders no matter what your situation might be. Here’s how it’s done.<\/p>\n

How to Password Protect A Folder in Mac OS X?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Click “Applications”, then “Utilities”, and then open up “Disk Utilities”.<\/li>\n
  2. Once disk utility has launched, click on ‘new image’ on the top. Depending on your Macintosh’s security settings, you may be prompted to enter your administrator password to do this.<\/li>\n
  3. Name you image file, and choose your preferred location.<\/li>\n
  4. Select a disk size depending on the size of the files or folder you want to place inside.<\/li>\n
  5. Make sure you select ‘128-bit encryption’ under the ‘Encryption’ drop down.<\/li>\n
  6. Under ‘image format’, select ‘sparse disk image’ and click on create.<\/li>\n
  7. A window should appear where you need to set your password. Uncheck the “add password to keychain” box.<\/li>\n
  8. Once you’ve done that, the image will mount automatically.<\/li>\n
  9. Copy-paste all the files you need to protect to this image, and unmount the image once it’s done.<\/li>\n
  10. The next time you mount the image again, it will ask you to enter your password!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have confidential data in your Mac that needs to be locked with a passwords to prevent unwanted access? If you’re using a Windows computer, you need to use some third-party software such as Protect My Folders to achieve this. But things get much more easier with a Mac computer. Apple has provided a way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[1530,1529],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-lock-folders-in-mac","tag-password-protect-folders-in-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}