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With OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, you can FileVault your sensitive home directory, but put all your non-sensitive compute || i/o-intensive files outside your home directory (eg in /Users/Stuff) I don't know whether you can do this in 10.7 Lion Phil On 18 Aug 2011, at 22:50, William G. Scott wrote: > OS X 10.7 enables you to do whole-drive encryption. > > Here is a description from Arse Technica: > > http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/13 > > I ain't never tried it myself. 10.7 seems to run slow enough as it is. > > -- Bill > > > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Andreas Förster wrote: > >> Since we're on the subject... I've been tempted on and off to encrypt my hard drive, but after getting burned once a hundred years ago when encrypted data turned into garbled bytes all of a sudden I've been hesitant. I've gone so far as to install TrueCrypt (on a MacBook), but I haven't put it into action. Before I do, the big question: >> >> What software do people on the bb use for encryption? What can be recommended without hesitation? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> Andreas >> >> >> On 18/08/2011 1:19, Eric Bennett wrote: >>> John, >>> >>> Since so many people have said it's flawless, I'd like to point out this is not always the case. The particular version of the particular package that we have installs some system libraries that caused a program I use on a moderately frequent basis to crash every time I tried to open a file on a network drive. It took me about 9 months to figure out what the cause was, during which time I had to manually copy things to the local drive before I could open them in that particular program. The vendor of the encryption software has a newer version but our IT department is using an older version. There is another workaround but it's kind of a hack. >>> >>> So I'd say problems are very rare, but if you run into strange behavior, don't rule out encryption as a possible cause. >>> >>> -Eric >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Andreas Förster, Research Associate >> Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs >> Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London >> http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk