Hi all,
some of the albums I have in iPhoto contain material not suitable to everyone having acces to my Mac. So I would like to password protect certain albums. Is that possible?
iMac (24-inch Early 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
Thnx Larry bit isn't that crazy? So the pictures of my topless girlfriend are next to my daughter's birthday, for 'everyone' to see and when I look at/for pictures with my girlfriend we can stumble on ex-girfriends....
Solution can't be difficult technically.
So I have to perform a 'trick' now and go and hide them....
Thank you all. I just don't want my kids to see any topless pictures of my girlfriend and I don't want my girlfriend to see pictures of holidays with ex girlfriends. Nothing top secret, so I created some speciall albums with the pictures hidden. I still find it very strange that one can password protect almost everything and that this it not possible with pictures/albums which can contain very private stuff.
Ehhh Terence, I have an iMac, being used by everybody in my household. Same goes for the iPad. I find it strange not to be able to protect some files when I wish to do so. Notably with picures! I do not want to create an account for every family member. I want everything to be open and accessible BUT for maybe 20 pictures, that's all.
Ehhh indeed, there are a couple of very easy ways to do this:
Have two accounts: one for you and one for everybody else.
Or
Put these files on an encrypted disk image.
Look at it from a programmer's point of view: you want everything to be open and accessible except for the bits you don't want open and accessible. These bits that are not to be shared are arbitrary and defined by you alone and based on content. iPhoto may know that Jpeg is a photograph, but has no way of knowing what it's a photo of. The only way to protect things is to change their format. So, you encrypt the file. iPhoto doesn’t offer encryption - it's a $15 photo app and does not claim to offer everything - so you use the two options the OS offers for doing the same job.
Regards
TD
Hi Terence, thank you for thinking with me.
Creating separate accounts is no option, everbody is free to use my iMac.
I'll put the photo's away. Still I find it frustrating that I want something and that it is just not possible. I don't want to look at it from a programmer's pov, that's what MS does and that's why I love Apple!
Of course the OS can not know what the content of a photo is, that's why I want to protect them on an album level. Like one can do with any Excel sheet and Word document!
Best regards and thanks again
I agree with you it's ridiculous.iphoto seems to be designed to make a mess mix of photoes.
I always have this problem,irrelevant photoes mixed together and exposed to everyone who runs iphoto.and you should ALWAYS fear your privacy when someone wants to check a photo there.I'm not talking about naked pictures or ****,but there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to seperate and "hide" more personal photoes from normal photoes.doesn't make no sense.it's just a poorly designed software this iPhoto.it's funny how some people arrogantly defend such weakness and flaws of this annoying software.
However the method shown in the YouTube video does not allow for any increase in library size. Terence Devlins post already suggested using an excrypted disk image.
If you're going to use an encrypted disk image create it first at a size that will allow the library to be placed in it some room for growth. Then when you get a new girlfriend and add more photos to it there will be room for them. 🙂
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If you find the software annoying then why are you using it? The sensible thing would be to find an app that does what you want rather than one that annoys you. And when you find this photo app with selective encryption please post back and tell us all about it.
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LN
Just create a separate library for the private material. If yu want to hide it from Mom put that on an encrypted disk image.
I think you can,in effect,password protect iPhoto album and other apps using a 3rd party tool such as MacFort,
see How to password protect iPhoto for more details.
Yes, MacFort will do this. But why pay $25 dollars when all it does is put the Library on an encrypted disk image, and you can do that yourself for free?
What is strange? The whole idea of having an account is to log out of. That way no one can see any of your data. So, log out. Problem solved.
Is it possible to password protect albums in iPhoto
