I plan to use an encrypted disk image to protect the contents of an
external FW drive in case it gets nicked. From what I’ve read this
should work well. My question is this: if at some point I no longer
want to encrypt the external drive is it just a matter of deleting the
disk image or will that not remove the protection?
Todd
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Sometime around 1/9/09 (at 13:50 -0500) Todd said:
if at some point I no longer want to encrypt the external drive is
it just a matter of deleting the disk image or will that not remove
the protection?
If you use an encrypted disk image then that’s actually just a
document (an encrypted one of course) that sits on whatever drive you
like. Delete the disk image file and you’re done. If you encrypt the
volume itself then you’d need to reformat the whole thing. Probably.
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At 13:50 -0500 1/9/09, Todd wrote:
I plan to use an encrypted disk image to protect the contents of an
external FW drive in case it gets nicked. From what I’ve read this
should work well. My question is this: if at some point I no longer
want to encrypt the external drive is it just a matter of deleting
the disk image or will that not remove the protection?Todd
Your data is in the encrypted disk image, so if you delete it your
data is gone. You can copy it out first though.
David
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