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How to use password-protected folders on Mac? for this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and answers in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and easy way.

Are there any files on your Mac computer that you don't want others to see? For example: sensitive financial information, personal files and work products and other more important documents. The easiest way to protect these documents is to use passwords. Below, Xiaobian shows you how to use passwords to protect folders on Mac and how to add passwords to folders so that you can easily learn to protect your important files.

How to add a password to a folder

You can use the built-in utility disk tool on macOS and Mac to password protect the contents of the folder. First, make sure that everything you want to password protect is in a folder on Mac. Instead of dumping everything into one large folder, use a single folder or subfolder to better organize.

Once you have determined how the files are stored, follow these steps to protect the folder with a password on Mac:

1. Open the disk tool on Mac

2. Select "File"-- "New Image"-- "Image from folder" in the menu bar.

3. Select the folder you want to use password protection, and click "read".

4. Select the encryption level: 128 bits or 256 bits

5. Enter and verify your folder password

6. Name the folder as needed

7. Under Image format, select read / write from the menu, and click Save.

Password protects a single file

The password-protected folder in disk Utility is the most secure method available to Apple, but you can still use passwords to prevent snooping on any document on Mac. These are the two core ways to protect files with passwords on Mac.

Notes

The Apple Notes application for macOS can protect a single file with a password with just a few clicks. You can create a note file from scratch, or you can scan a document on iPhone, which is saved as your own unique document. No matter which method you choose, follow these steps to password protect the Notes file:

1. Open the "memo" on Mac

2. Select the file you want to protect with a password, and in the menu bar, click the Lock icon.

3. Select "lock memo"

4. Enter the password of the notebook you want to protect

If you want to protect files that are not in Notes, you can use Preview.

Preview

One thing to remember about the preview is that it can only protect PDF files with passwords. If you want to protect other file types, you must first export them to PDF, and then export and protect the file with a password. Here is how to use the preview function to use a password for a PDF file:

1. Open the preview on Mac

2. Select the PDF file to be password protected, and in the menu bar, select "File"-- "Export".

Note: you can also right-click PDF in Finder, select "Open with", and then select "Preview".

3. In the menu that follows, select "encryption", add and verify your password, and select "Save".

You can also protect files in Pages,Keynote or Numbers with passwords. To do this, open a file in one of the applications, select File from the menu bar, and then select set password.

This is the answer to the question about how to use password to protect folders on Mac. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel for more related knowledge.

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