How to password-protect a folder on Mac
Compare encrypted disk images, permissions, compression, and full-disk encryption.
Guides
Practical Mac folder-security guides
Understand the tradeoffs before changing how you store important files.
How to lock a folder without Terminal
A Finder-friendly workflow for creating and reopening a local encrypted vault.
Can Finder put a password on a folder?
What Finder can do, what it cannot, and the encrypted-container alternative.
Protect documents on a shared Mac
Accounts, screen locking, FileVault, selected-folder encryption, and backups.
FileVault vs folder-level encryption
Why the two approaches protect different moments and can complement each other.