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Put image/video inside secure notes in Keychain
Authored by: keirthomas on Mar 01, '14 01:54:55AM

If you've images or videos you want to encrypt for protection the best policy is to put them in a encrypted .dmg via Disk Utility. (Google it -- there are many guides online.)

However, the trick is to create an alias to the image(s) or video(s) somewhere on the desktop or in a folder (drag the file with Option+Shift held down).

When you double-click the alias, you'll immediately be prompted for the password to the .dmg archive, if it's not already opened. In other words, you haven't got to waste time manually opening the archive first.

The downside is that you'll need to manually close the archive after viewing by ejecting it in Finder. However, I'm sure that somebody somewhere has written a folder action or Automator action that periodically (i.e. every few minutes) attempts to eject any open encrypted .dmg mounts. If the file is open it'll fail. If it's not open it'll succeed.

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Put image/video inside secure notes in Keychain
Authored by: designr on Mar 01, '14 05:33:52PM
set diskName to "YourDiskNameHere"
tell application "Finder"
	eject disk diskName
end tell
or
set disksList to {"Disk 1", "Disk 2", "Disk 3"}
tell application "Finder"
	repeat with i in disksList
		eject disk i
	end repeat
end tell


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