Sending an encrypted folder via email

Open the pdf's in preview. Save each of them as. Choose a new name or new location, check the box to encrypt. click save. choose your password and verify it. Do this to both pdf's. In the finder, select both of them, right click and choose "compress 2 items" this will create a zip of the two files. There are many programs available for windows that can extract zip files, I have never com across a computer without one, I actually think there is an inbuilt feature. When the recipient gets the zip, all they have to do is uncompress it, and enter the password fir the pdf's that you have set. Just don't forget to tell them the password.

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HI Barbara,

Don't know if this is the answer but might offer up an idea at least.
http://3d2f.com/tags/decrypt/mac/

I'd love to see more responses to your post myself. Excellent question.




Carolyn 🙂

"Thanks, I looked at that, but I couldn't find it on Versiontracker and it's somewhat dated (from 2003), so I wouldn't trust it enough to actually install it on my baby."

I read you loud and clear. I'm still going to ask around though. There must be a way




Carolyn 🙂

You should be able to do it from the Terminal.

You would open terminal and then use the command

zip -e zipname.zip file1.pdf file2.pdf

Where 'zipname.zip' is the output file to be mailed, 'file1.pdf' and 'file2.pdf' are the files that you want to send.

The '-e' in the command provided above tells the zip application to prompt the user for a password to use to encrypt the zip file. When you execute that command to create the zip file you will be prompted to enter a password.

Later if someone tries to open (or unzip) the .zip file they will be prompted to enter the password before the file is opened (unzipped).

Hi Duane,

Can Windows open a .zip format?



Carolyn 🙂

Every Windows user I know of uses the zip format for compressing files. It would be on odd setup that couldn't handle zip files.

Now that is much easier!

that's what I thought! I thought I was missing something so I tried it and it worked! I'm surprised 2700 posts later and you missed that! sure, we all miss the sitters... glad to help

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Thank you. I learned on this one! Persistence.




Carolyn 🙂

Just to chime in I was following this thread because I was looking for a similar solution. Please accept my appreciation to all who contributed, it helped me!

Thanks for the star. Much appreciated

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