[ndtechie05]

hey guys im leaving for college thursday and im bringing my G5 and Powerbook, i was wondering if there is some sort of privacy app that you can password protect folders and files and wut not? all the help u can give is great appreciated

-Brett

[wataru]

Just set your machine to require a password to wake from sleep or screensaver, and disable auto-login. Anything beyond that and you'll have to use an encrypted disk image, which isn't all that convenient.

[Randman]

For extra privacy, use Disk Utility and create an encrypted disk image then keep sensitive files in that. Don't forget the password. Also, add that to the Privacy pane in Preferences > Spotlight so the disk image (and its contents) won't be indexed when mounted).