Password protecting some files

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Hi guys,

Basically got the entire contents of my missus' phone on my laptop at the minute, includes about 300 photos, 270 songs and some video files, including her contacts to.

I want to password protect the file they are in incase anyone who picks my laptop up decides to go snooping.

I've never done this before as I have nothing to hide and as such, its not uncommon for me to wake up and to find someone in my family using the Macbook.

So, I've been googling and there are some ways within OSX you can do this, but are a bit long winded (creating a DMG from the file and putting a password on it for example). I want some 3rd party software so I can just right click 'add password' and protect it on the spot.

Any suggestions? :)

Cheers,
Jake
 
DMG is ideal for this, I wouldn't cruft the system up with 3rd party stuff.

Open Disk Utility, create a read/write DMG with a password.
Put the files in it, eject. Job done.
 
Did the DMG trick and it took bloody ages (nearly 2gb of data) (admittedly it'd be quicker on the Pro but hey!) want something I can just password protect on the spot.

Found 'cryptor' on apples website which seems to be just what I'm after! :)
 
There is an app called "Hide Folders" which does what it says on the tin.... Hinds the folders from any view.... You need to open the app to view them. Within the app i think you can password project the hidden folders and or the app itself

Hope it helps
 
Cheers, I found out that Cryptor was rubbish in the end but found 'Espionage' which was exactly what I was after, perfect :)
 
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