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Apimac Secret Folder
Apimac Secret Folder is a program that provides an easy and fast way to protect personal documents and avoid them being seen, modified, or erased by other users. It allows users to hide multiple folders and their contents. Files and folders can be added by means of a single click on a choose dialog box or via drag and drop.
The application is really simple to use and can be protected with a password for extra security.
Tags: security , management , library , file
Opinions:
I agree that this app's method would stop most people from finding whatever you were trying to hide, but does it really make sense to pay $20 for something that only adds a period to a filename? If you're using OS X, you already have Disk Utility and can easily make an encrypted sparse disk image that will prevent both casual and advanced access.
It's worth noting that casual users could still find invisible items using File > Find (at least in Panther; I don't have Tiger).
Dear macskeeball, interesting comment, anyway I think you could have a bit misunderstood the use of this nice application: it's just a tool for hide something you want to keep invisible in your computer from casual users. I find it very useful and, what's more easy to use.
PS
About terminal, you can do about everything with him but we are Mac users and not UNIX users so welcome to applications like this one! ;-)
Bull. This offers no true security whatsoever. I just tested this, and with this app you're paying $20 just to add a period to the beginnning of a folder's filename. Such "invisible" items can be easily accessed through the Terminal ("ls -a" to list all of the contents of the current directory and "cd" to change directories) or with a Finder set to show invisibile items (which can be done).
In short, this is only "security" through obscurity, and is not worth a cent. For actual security, you need encryption. Disk Utility, which comes with OS X, allows you to create encrypted disk images.