Re: File/Folder Encryption

From: Greg Merritt <gmerritt_at_berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:20:05 -0800

On Dec 11, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Erol Kepkep wrote:

> I'd prefer a
> simple encrypted folder, if that's possible, so I wouldn't need to
> worry about the disk image size.

Oh! No problem. Just create it as a "sparse disk image". This will
give you a small image file size which will only grow as content is
added to the image.

I just made an 8GB encrypted sparse disk image. Empty,
the .sparseimage is 31 megabytes.

-Greg

 
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