On Jan 3, 2004, at 8:06 AM, arjan.bos at icu.nl wrote: > Neither am I. I created several small(-ish) encrypted, secured disk > images for my important files. These images easily fit on a > memorystick (each), so I can always carry them with me. They are > encrypted, so it's not easy to read them without the correct > passphrase. > > From my $HOME directory I created symbolic links to their mount point > in /Volumes, so I can access them as though they were on my home > directory. The only negative point is that you have to mount the disk > images every time you log on. But my solution to that is to simply > never log off. (uptime is now 11 days.) The advantage is that they > appear in the new finder as disks, so you have easy access to the > direct images if you want to. I do this from a 100MB on-disk encrypted image for my sensitive files, however I don't have it symlinked into my home or anything -- I just access the files (Quicken, etc.) directly from the mounted volume. I have the encryption password in my keychain, so I put the disk image file in my Startup Items and it mounts at login. Then I use either the screen lock or Fast User Switching login screen to lock the account when sleeping the machine for some measure of security. -- Justin R. Miller incanus at codesorcery.net PGP key at http://codesorcery.net/pubkey.html