How to Lock and Password Protect a Folder on Mac
Some folders on your Mac are too important to lose or to give anyone access to. So how do you lock or password protect a folder on Mac, and what is the difference between the two?
In this video Emilio Aguero of @TechWithEmilio will show you two ways to protect an important folder: by locking it to prevent anyone from deleting your folder and modifying its contents, and by creating an encrypted, password-protected folder in the form of a DMG file.
For more ways to protect a folder on Mac, check out the full tutorial on our blog: https://moonlock.com/lock-folder-macos. It also includes instructions for:
how to encrypt a folder on Mac using Encrypto
how to lock and password-protect a folder with Terminal
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And for easy navigation, here are the key moments of our video with the time codes:
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Two Ways to Protect a Folder
01:19 - How to Lock a Folder
02:56 - How to Password-Protect a Folder