Password Protecting Files and Folders

Is there any way to password protect a folder? I'd like to password protect my iChat logs, so that iChat can still write to them and I can still access them via spotlight, however to open any of them I'd need a password. Is there a way to do it?

iMatt711 wrote:
Is there any way to password protect a folder? I'd like to password protect my iChat logs, so that iChat can still write to them and I can still access them via spotlight, however to open any of them I'd need a password. Is there a way to do it?
Create an encrypted sparse disk image with Disk Utility without saving your password in the keychain, mount the disk and copy your files or folders, then make an alias of the files or folder that are in the disk image to anywhere you prefer. When you access the alias, the disk image will mount and ask for your password.

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Password protect files and folders Creative Cloud Files

I know this feature has been requested a number of times, but I'm just wondering if anyone knows whether or not the ability to password protect files and folders for sharing purposes is in the works? It appears to be a glaring omission to me, particularly as Adobe's vision for the Creative Cloud encompasses the corporate world, where security is obviously of great importance.
Any news would be welcome.
Best regards
Liam

Moving the discussion to File Hosting, Syncing, and Collaboration forum.
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Atul Saini

Password protect docs and folders?

I have several folders with secure/private info that I want to password protect. Does Snowleopard have a feature that allows users to protect folders and files?
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Use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to create an encrypted disk image for them, and don't put the password in the keychain.
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How do I save a password protected file without a password?

Someone sent me a password protected file and I want to save it on my computer without the password.
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Scott

Hi Scott,
It is not possible to save a password protected file without a password with Adobe Reader, you would require Adobe Acrobat to remove the password protection. Even with Adobe Acrobat you can only remove the security if you are aware about the password otherwise you need to contact the Author/creator of the PDF to remove the security.
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~Pranav

How do I open a password protected file ( using automation objects : oAVDoc, CCAcroPDDoc ) ?

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I am using adobe automation and wanted to open a password protected file and remove its password and save it ?
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Post your questions in the forum for Acrobat SDK.

Password protecting files which will be uploaded to a web site

Hi,
In Snow Leopard I know that Disk Utility will create a disk image that can be password protected. Can that disk image be opened by a windows computer as well as a mac? Is there any other way to create a password protected file in SL? I need to upload secure audio files for clients to ultimately download (clients may not be very handy with computers). Thanks

An encrypted disk image can't be opened by anything without the password, unless you have the resources of a national security agency. There's no other way to password protect files or folders in OS X. Give it up, your paranoia is showing.

Xserve, Windows 7 and password protected files

I have a Late 2006 Xserve running Sever OS 10.4.11 and I'm having a heck of a time connecting to any password protected files. For example, I can go "Map Network Drive", add the "Users" (\\xserve\Users\) folder and then access any unprotected folders within that directory (lets call them Bob and Tom), but not any of the password protected files (lets call that user Mike)
If I click on the Bob or Tom folders (under "Users") it lets me in, no problem.
If I click on the Mike folder (also mapped under "Users"), it says I don't have the correct access privileges. It's a straight up denial, no prompt for alternative login info.
My first thought was this; go "Map Network Drive" and map the Mike folder directly (\\xserver\Users\Mike), but use the correct login info (username/pass). It prompts me for the username and password. HERES WHERE I'M STUCK! No matter what I put for the username and password, it denies me. I've tried resetting the password (through the server interface), then sucesfully logged in using my MacBook Pro (using the exact same username/password I had been trying with Win-doze)
Again, I can connect to most of server files and folders from the Windows 7 machine (after following the "Set value to 'Send LM & NTLM' " procedure suggested by Vocal Jazz Fan on these forums. BIG THANK YOU!)
So, is this impossible to fix? Is it just the nature of the beast running Windows machines on a Mac server? Why is it only these protected files that I can't access? That seems so strange to me.
For a background, we had previously used Windows XP and logged into these folders with no problems.
Note: this server is at a community center and thus has very limited funds and computer expertise, hence the reason we're two full OS's behind. If we cannot get this to work, we're prepared to hire some server jockeys to completely overhaul our server (run Windows on our Xserve hardware), which will take 2-3 days at about $120 an hour. Please help!

I'd spend a few of those US$120 per hour hours with a Snow Leopard Server upgrade, as the software has matured substantially from Tiger Server to Leopard Server to Snow Leopard Server.
[Here are my crib notes for getting Windows to work with Mac OS X Server (Snow Leopard Server)|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1590], which might be useful as a starting point.
With those Windows registry keys as search targets, there are a number of discussions of getting Samba password-protected shares to work with Windows and Windows 7 boxes posted around the network, both at Microsoft and via the Samba mailing lists.
These cases sometimes get as far as running Wireshark and dumping the network traffic, too.

AirPrint and pdf password protected file issue

Hello
I'm facing issue while printing pdf password protected file via Airprint.
From my iPhone /iPad I can print without any issue to my HP dj 2540 almost everything except pdf password protected file.
The same pdf file (protected with password) can be printed without any issue form any PC/laptop.
Do anyone have any idea on how to solve this issue, please?
Thanks
regards
Michele

It seems that everyone asking this question have links from Grand Canyon University which will soon have over a 100,000 online students that all use ebooks that open just fine in Adobe Acrobat on their PCs BUT NOT on the mobile versions of Adobe Acrobat. Whatever allows this on PCs needs to be added to the mobile version soon. We rely on our etextbooks that can ONLY be opened on the PC version of Acrobat. That is ridiculous. I can't believe with all the posts regarding password protected ebooks on this forum....that it hasn't been resolved. No one can give you a link because the ebooks are on a website that needs a password. We can save the books to our harddrives/dropbox... I could send you a copy, but thats it. Surely someone at Adobe knows what the hell is going on and can test the problem out themselves?

Locking files and folders

I want to lock a few files and folders so they can't be opened without having to enter a password first. Any help would be greatly appreciated....
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John

1. Open Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
2. Go to New menu -> select new below the New Window -> Disk Image from Folder
3. Select the folder in question you wish to password protect
4. Below the window where you select the folder, change Compressed to Read/Write, unless you want it Read only in which case you would select Read Only
5. Encryption select AES-128 (recommended)
That will let you password protect the folder.

I just restored my 13" MBP i5 at the apple store to the newest version of Lion after issues with a previous Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard- this time I created a new account and just ported files and folders, and now MS Office doesn't work. Help?

I just restored my 13" MBP i5 at the apple store to the newest version of Lion after issues with a previous Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard- this time I created a new account and just ported files and folders, and now MS Office doesn't work.
^^ that's the main problem. Here's the full history.
I bought a new 13" i5 MBP, early 2011 edition. I had an old white Macbook 2.14 ghz core2duo on Snow Leopard. I attempted to port over my time machine backup, but encountered problems in that my User was inaccessible from the new computer after the import finished, and I had to go in and change the root password, etc, and for some reason or another, I couldn't install any programs at all from that administrator's account. By "couldn't" I mean I could install them, but upon installation they would never boot. So, I took it to the apple store and did a clean install from the most up to date Lion OSX. Then, I created a brand new admin account, instead of trying to import the old one, and things seemed great. Then, I just imported my old files from the TM backup, but not any system settings, permissions, or user data. Just my Docs, pics, vids, apps, and itunes stuff.
Here's where things get weird again. I imported this stuff under the name "old", but all of these folders have a red negative sign on them, marking them as restricted. So, from my main admin account, I cannot even peruse these folders. Since I didn't import user data, I can't sign in to the "old" account to change permissions. I already tried to change the permissions from system preferences, but that didn't change anything. And now, for whatever reason, of all the apps that were imported then, MS Office is the only set of apps that does not work. When I click on it, it just says there was a problem and asks if I'd like to send a report to apple. I tried reinstalling it to no avail. I'm an English student, so i really need access to Word. Can anyone help? The Apple store is a major detour for me and would like to fix this issue myself.

Most likely you have Office 2004 which are PPC-only applications and will not work in Lion. Upgrade to Office 2011. Other alternatives are:
Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.)
Open Office (Office 2007-like suite compatible with OS X.)
NeoOffice (similar to Open Office.)
LibreOffice (a new direction for the Open Office suite.)

Why can't I save my password protected file in a password protected folder?

I've just encrypted my folder which contains password protected files. I've attempted to save a new password protected file (Word document) but have had to save it to my desktop because when I try to save the file to the folder I receive a message: "Word cannot save or create this file. The disk may be full [which it is not] or write-protected [which it is]". Sooooooo. Does this mean I can only password protect the folder and not the files? Which is really annoying because I really do need the two levels of security. Please can someone help?

File Vault is not in Disk Utility. It is in System Preferences/Security/FileVault.

Auditing failed access to files and folders in Windows Storage Server 2008 R2

Hello,
I've been trying to figure out why I cannot audit the failed access to files and folders on my server. I'm trying to replace a unix-based NAS with a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 solution so I can use my current audit tools (the 'nix NAS
has basically none). I'm looking for a solution for a small remote office with 5-10 users and am looking at Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 (no props yet, but on a Buffalo appliance). I specifically need to audit the failure of a user to access
folders and files they are not supposed to view, but on this appliance it never shows. I have:
Enabled audit Object access for File system, File share and Detailed file share
Set the security of the top-level share to everyone full control
Used NTFS file permissions to set who can/cannot see particular folders
On those folders (and letting those permissions flow down) I've set the auditing tab to "Fail - Everyone - Full Control - This folder, subfolders and files"
On the audit log I only see "Audit Success" messages for items like "A network share object was checked to see whether client can be granted desired access (Event 5145) - but never a failure audit (because this user was not allowed access by NTFS permissions).
I've done this successfully with Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 w/SP1 and am wondering if anybody has tried this with the Windows Storage Server version (with success of course). My customer wants an inexpensive "appliance" and I thought this new
variant of 2008 was the ticket, but I can't if it won't provide this audit.
Any thoughts? Any of you have luck with this? I am (due to the fact I bought this appliance out of my own pocket) using the WSS "Workgroup" flavor and am wondering if this feature has been stripped from the workgroup edition of WSS.
TIA,
--Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
The steps to setup Audit on a WSS system should be the same as a standard version of Windows Server. So please redo the steps listed below to see if issue still exists:
Enabling file auditing is a 2-step process.
[1] Configure "audit object access" in AD Group Policy or on the server's local GPO. This setting is located under Computer Configuration-->Windows Settings-->Security Settings-->Local Policies-->Audit Policies. Enable success/failure auditing
for "Audit object access."
[2] Configure an audit entry on the specific folder(s) that you wish to audit. Right-click on the folder-->Properties-->Advanced. From the Auditing tab, click Add, then enter the users/groups whom you wish to audit and what actions you wish to audit
- auditing Full Control will create an audit entry every time anyone opens/changes/closes/deletes a file, or you can just audit for Delete operations.
A similar thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/da689e43-d51d-4005-bc48-26d3c387e859
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How do I stop Windows 7 from searching hidden files and folders

In XP it was simple with the intuitive Advanced Search Options.
Even if you enable "Don't show Hidden Files and Folders" in Windows 7, they still show up in the search menu. A similar post included a suggestion by a support dude to post a question here. I've searched for every possible solution and yet something so simple appears to be non existent. Has Microsoft just lost its mind with omitting this feature? Is this something that will never be solved? Indexed or not, hidden files and folders still appear in Search.
Thanks

what have you setup in Explorer->Organize->Folder & Search Options?
Don't show hidden and Hide: Empty, Protected, etc. all ticked
if you have at some stage indexed all those system folders, and subsquently removed those from the index scope, then you may need to rebuild the index so those results are not presented by searches?
i've assumed that you are getting things like \windows included, and this seems to be typical. perhaps because some common tools like notepad, wordpad etc reside in those folders.
have you checked out the Indexing Options?
from memory, "don't show hidden & system" really only obscures the stuff when you're browsing in explorer. the indexing engine doesn't respect that kind of setting. you'll need to get your indexing scope worked out to affect the search results presented.
I'm not concerned much with indexing, it's just amazing that there is no option to stop "Search" from searching hidden files and folders when "Don't show hidden" is checked - the way it was with XP, etc. As I understand it whether folder is indexed or not, will not stop "SEARCH" from searching them. It was quite simple in XP but in Windows 7 it seems it is impossible.

Can not open a password protected file from OSX2.8 in OSX4.x

I have a few files that I password protected in OSX2.8 that will not open now in OSX 4.6. The are not part of the vault type protection. It seems that the feature of individually password protecting files in the earlier OSX system do not open, nor give the option to even give the password. In the get info window there is no option to change or type in the password. The password is not related to the administrator password and it seems that it was a feature that did not follow through to the later OSX version. The only alternative I can think of is to install OSX 2 on an external and hope it gives me the option.
Does anyone know how to deal with this type of individually protected file in OSX 4.6? I have tried the vault, and the get info, but nothing seems to work to even give me the option to enter a password for an individual file. They are jpeg, and QuickTime, and Photoshop .psd files.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Then it's probably not 100%-compatible with the PDF security standard. You
should post this question on an iText forum.

Password protected files do not preview.

Can someone help me?
When I upload a password protected file with restrictions on printing and editing it does not preview the file. I have not set any password for viewing or opening the file. I want to share the document but not allow for people to download it i.e. just for online viewing.
I do understand that download of the document is inevitable for a person that has some basic level of computer literacy but still want to get that done.
Is what I am trying to accomplish possible?
Regards.
Edit: I am referring to Acrobat.com document management and sharing.

Hi
I am having the same problem, the image does not appear in the main preview box, it is shown in the sidebar window but you cannot drag it into the main window, I have tried tiff and jpg but to not avail, the only way I can import into main window is converting the picture into eps (but it then automatically converts to a PDF format before importing), I am running 10.6.2, any ideas

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