My external drive is shared automatically on second accout...

Hi,
I dont want my external drive (formated partially to FAT32 and journaled) to be seen on second account - my wifes - (no administrator account for her) but it is at the moment.
any suggestions?
thanks in advance
M

what do you mean by 'formatted partially to FAT32 and journaled"? do you mean you have two partitions on it, one FAT and one MAc Os extended? you can do nothing about the FAT partition. It will always be read+write by anybody. but for a MAc os extended partition you can change permissions on the drive to allow read access only to yourself. select the drive in finder, enter command+i and change the permissions in the permissions panel at the bottom.
but keep in mind that if the drive is plugged in in a different computer an admin user on that computer will be able to override those permissions restrictions. the only way to completely protect your data is to make an encrypted disk image on the external (this can be done with disk utility) and put
your sensitive data inside.

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Roderick Guerry wrote:
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