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This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Sam. If the permission changes require access to folders outside your user account, you will be prompted for an administrator password.
(With multiple items selected, it has the very literal title Multiple Item Info.) This brings up the special contextual Get Info dialog that reflects the current Finder selection. While holding the Option key, select File > Get Info or press Command-Option-I.(Shift-click adds files to selection and Command-click toggles in from your selection.) Enter and verify a password, then click Choose. Click the Format pop-up menu, then choose an encrypted file system format. Click the Scheme pop-up menu, then choose GUID Partition Map. If you want your folder to appear once again, you’ll need to. In the sidebar, select the storage device you want to encrypt. A command prompt will open asking if you want to lock your folder: Press Y and press Enter. In the Finder, select all the disparate files or folders (but not both) using Finder selection tools. Place all your files and folders that you think are sensitive in the folder you created by double-clicking on the BAT file.If you have both files and folders, you have to select first all the files and then all folders. macOS recursively applies this new permission, which means it sets every file and folder nested within the select folder to the new permission.įor files and folders that are scattered: You can change their permissions as a group, but only by selecting either files or folders in a pass.From the gear menu below that list, select Apply to Enclosed Items and confirm.Change permissions as you wish, such as turning the owner’s Privilege-here labeled “glenn (Me)”-to Read & Write from the popup menu to the right of the name.In the Sharing & Permissions section, click the lock icon at the lower-right corner and enter the appropriate account password.
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