Why don’t you use DropBox or some other cloud storage for your stuff? Save the encrypted files to the cloud?
> On Apr 12, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I use my laptop for both work and home. Because my work stuff must be hidden > from prying eyes, I put all my work stuff on some encrypted disk images which > I eject at the end of the work day. > > The bad thing about encrypted disk images is that they have a size, and so > they run out of space periodically as I add more and more stuff. > > Enter APFS: it would seem that I could switch to using encrypted APFS volumes > instead of the disk images. The big advantage to this is that they share > space with everything else on my internal drive, so that they have no > artificial size limit (other than that of the internal drive as a whole). I > could then unmount the APFS volumes at the end of the work day. Aside from > seeming a little clumsier (gotta mount the volumes from Disk Utility instead > of from Finder), this looks to be theoretically OK. > > I don't know if it is empirically OK, however, which is kinda important. > > I tried googling but only found various bits of information on each of the > two ways of storing things, but no arguments saying whether one should be > favored over the other. > > Does switching from encrypted sparsebundle images to encrypted APFS volumes > seem like a good thing to do, or does it seem dopey? Does using APFS volumes > affect how backups work? Is there any increased danger that absent-mindedness > could destroy large chunks of data? > > Thanks for any practical experience advice. > > Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=BNiPPWoIRingFNzlBy7eSUZNDjWp_OlqMTpU_SwnRuQ&s=J3VVJnbPOn254rIaOrR1kGpVowX1N_-L2Ty5iRTeSHI&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
