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Jeff Kagel Author

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disk utility

I am trying to use disk utility to encrypt a folder on an external HD.

folder is 2TB.

I get message saying operation can't be completed.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Jul 2, 2020 1:38 PM

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Level 10

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Jul 2, 2020 1:54 PM in response to Jeff Kagel

Disk Utility does not encrypt folders.

You can only encrypt whole drives or partitions.

Were you creating an Image of a folder, and trying to encrypt the image? Was there any more to the error message?

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Jul 2, 2020 1:52 PM in response to Jeff Kagel

Disk Utility does not encrypt folders. You can, however, create an encrypted disk image in which you can store a folder.

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