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Is it possible to encrypt a single directory (or a group of directories) on a Mac? I don't mind if I have to use third-party software.

apaderno
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  • possible duplicate of [Mac OS X full-disk encryption, with Time Machine](http://superuser.com/questions/73181/mac-os-x-full-disk-encryption-with-time-machine) – Sathyajith Bhat Aug 20 '10 at 03:57
  • I changed the question because I am really interested on encrypting a single directory, rather than creating a new partition, and encrypting it. – apaderno Aug 20 '10 at 14:13

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another third party solution is truecrypt. I use it with OS X, Ubuntu and Windows.

TrueCrypt is open source.

lexu
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It looks like you have edited your question so that it now refers to encrypted directories, not volumes. While you cannot encrypt directories directly, as far as I know, you can use encrypted disk images to protect files on your hard drive without encrypting the entire drive.

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  • I apologize for the change. I was taking the assumption it was not possible to encrypt single directories; when I saw the reply about File Vault, I remembered what I was first trying to do, and I changed the question. – apaderno Aug 20 '10 at 14:18
  • You can also stick stuff in encrypted disk images, and then symlink it to a place outside the disk image! It'll show as a broken alias until you mount the disk image. (A symlink is effectively an alias that works with command-line programs; if you don't care about that, you can probably just use an alias.) – SilverWolf May 15 '18 at 16:20
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For a third party solution I would recommend PGP whole disk encryption http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/index.html

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The two solutions below may be of use for you.

http://agilewebsolutions.com/knox

http://www.taoeffect.com/espionage/

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  • Knox is a just a nice front-end to creating and managing encrypted Disk Images as is already easily possible with Disk Utility. I've used it for a while until a bug in its password handling code caused me to lose one of the containers. – Daniel Beck Aug 09 '12 at 05:41