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Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 08, '07 03:33:52PM

Now that's a fascinating comment. I'll try that first bit.

I've used the encrypted disk image trick for years [several of them], and I thought I'd submitted the same hint before [can't recall for sure].

Anyway, here's another warning, in addition to the ones above:

If you have an encrypted image mounted, and your Mac crashes [as in, kernel panic, or, as happened with me once, the FireWire cable gets disconnected while an image on the external FW drive is mounted], you may lose all the data in the encrypted disk. It won't mount again. Happened to me.

Sure, you could send it to some company to let them try reconstructing it, but then it's not secret stuff anymore, is it?

It bugs me that Disk Utility, by default, assumes I want the password added to my keychain. I must remember to uncheck that box every time I create an encrypted image.



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