Re: Additions to the Finder?
Re: Additions to the Finder?
- Subject: Re: Additions to the Finder?
- From: Jim Balhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:17:46 -0400
Have you thought of just using encrypted disk images, which can be made
with Disk Copy? A password is required to mount the image and access
the files within. Although this wouldn't fulfill all the requirements,
it would require zero effort. I think aliases would work as long as the
image were mounted already.
Regards,
Jim Balhoff
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 02:47 PM, Clark Mueller wrote:
Hi guys and gals,
I've been asked to look into a project. I'm pretty sure that it cannot
be done with Cocoa, and I'm equally certain that it isn't technically
feasible at all, but I'd like to ask the audience. As it was described
to me, what I am supposed to try and do is the following:
I want password protected folders.
It should look just like a normal folder that when clicked asks for
password. I have many of my secret files in the Favorite folder so
they would have to be alias-able. I want to be able to turn on/off the
passwords by a Finder service and Cmd+P.
In OS 9, if I were looking at something like this (integrating
something directly into the Finder), I would be looking at a system
extension to do it. I don't know very much about what kernel extensions
do, but can an integrated change be done in that way?
If not, the next thing I would look at is also something Apple had in
OS 9 (might've been 8.5, actually), which was an encryption app that
ran separate from the Finder, and archived things into a passworded
file. In OS X, I could write such an app and have it as invokable as a
Service.
I know the second idea is doable, but is the first?
TIA,
Clark
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