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Apr 8, 2014 10:13 AM in response to Agent Rubyby Melophage,Agent Ruby,
which software are you using to encrypt your folder? If that software write-protects the folder as part of its encryption mechanism, then it seems as though you’ll need to decrypt the folder, make changes to a file within the folder, and then reëncrypt the folder to maintain your preferred double layer of security each time you need to create or modify a file within the encrypted folder.
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Apr 8, 2014 5:22 PM in response to Melophageby Agent Ruby,Hello Melohage,
I'm using the free functionality provided on the Macbook. Do you know much about that?
All the best.
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Apr 8, 2014 8:11 PM in response to Agent Rubyby Melophage,Agent Ruby,
as CMCSK noted, different versions of OS X have different capabilities. Which version of OS X are you using? Is that “free functionality” the old version of FileVault? The more relevant information that you provide, the less time that we’ll spend in a round of Twenty Questions to figure things out.
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Apr 9, 2014 5:14 PM in response to Melophageby Agent Ruby,Hello again,
My operating system is Mac OS X 10.7.5
I'm using the functionality in the Disk Utility. I set up a 'Disk Image from Folder'. I'm sorry I'm not sure whether this is an old version of FileVault or not. Can you direct me as to how I could clarify for you?
All the best.
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Apr 9, 2014 6:50 PM in response to Agent Rubyby Melophage,Agent Ruby,
thanks for the clarification. What you’re doing is creating an encrypted disk image in Disk Utility, rather than creating an encrypted folder using the old version of FileVault. To be able to save an encrypted Word document inside of your encrypted disk image, you’ll need to take the following steps:
- Open the disk image by double-clicking it, and provide the disk image’s password when requested;
- In Word, save your encrypted document into the opened disk image by choosing the disk image as the destination folder into which the encrypted document should be saved;
- Close the disk image, either by dragging the disk image’s icon from your desktop to the Trash, or by clicking on its close button in the Finder’s sidebar.
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Apr 10, 2014 1:53 AM in response to Melophageby Agent Ruby,Thanks for this, Melophage.
I followed your instructions to the letter despite this being what I did yesterday and I received the same error message.
I really don't mind if itI save to the disk image or not. I just want to be able to password protect a folder, and then password protect the files inside. If I were to start from scratch is there a better way to go about this?
Thanks for your patience.
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Apr 10, 2014 8:38 AM in response to Agent Rubyby Melophage,Agent Ruby,
when you’d created the encrypted disk image in Disk Utility, you’d given it a particular maximum size. Perhaps it is filled close to that maximum size, and you would need to create a new disk image with a larger size so that you can save more encrypted documents within it?
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Apr 10, 2014 3:05 PM in response to Agent Rubyby CMCSK,In case you are still interested - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4790
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Apr 12, 2014 1:09 AM in response to CMCSKby Agent Ruby,Thanks to both you. Based on the information you've given me, I think I can work out the best solution for my needs.
All the best.


