Hi Ranulph Someone who knows what they are doing could easily access your files even with a password stored on your account. The only way of protecting the files is to use FileVault, which encrypts your entire home folder. Unfortunately this has a few knock-on effects.
Time Machine will no longer be able to make hourly backups, instead only backing up your entire home folder (or the encrypted disk image which contains your home folder) when you have logged out. If you want to restore an individual file you'll only be able to restore your entire home folder or nothing. FileVault also needs to regularly trim the free space out of the disk image that contains your home folder, this can take a while but if done regularly shouldn't be a problem. If you forget the password (or the master password set in FileVault prefs) you'll never be able to recover your files! If you've got a 100GB home folder, you'll need at least 100GB free (most likely a lot more) on the drive to turn on FileVault. The OS will want to create a new disk image and encrypt all of your files, it'll then delete your unencrypted files after it's finished. Be sure to use Disk Utility to erase the free space on your disk afterwards or your files will still be recoverable. Regards Sam providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
