[treebark7182]

is there anyway to make it so that a specific folder is password protected??? My sons play entirely too much video games and i want to put a monitor on it so i want to make my games folder password protected. Any help would be fantastic. Cheers

[treebark7182]

this is in jaguar as well fyi

[-Q-]

Never used any of these but here's a couple applications to try:

FolderGuard

Hide-Out

[Millennium]

You could put all the games into a disk image and then password-protect that.

This is by far the most secure solution. It is trivial to bypass the protection offered by the apps which Q mentioned; bypassing an encrypted disk image is much more difficult.

As far as using the disk image is concerned, it's almost the same once the image is made; you double-click the image, give the password, and it shows up in the Finder as a disk. You then load things as normal, and when you're done, you drag the mounted icon (NOT the disk image) to the Trash, as though you were ejecting a regular disk.

[pat++]

Here is what I would do :

Just create a new user called game. (put a password on the game user). Then change ownership of the Game folder (containing all the games) to user game and group game, and change permissions to read/write/execute for the game user, read/execute for the game group, and no permissions for others.

That way, only the game user can access to the games (and it requires a password to login, pretty good with Faster User Switching)