Security: Create Encrypted DMG Disk Images for Sensitive Data

Security: Create Encrypted DMG Disk Images for Sensitive Data

August 4, 2009 in How-To by Mark

File security and privacy is important for your sensitive data. The DMG disk image is a versatile tool that allows you to encrypt your data and enable password protection on a virtual disk image. This method allows for more versatility and portability than FileVaults methods of securing entire sections of your hard disk.

Disk Utility: Trouble Formatting or Erasing that Windows PC Hard Drive?

Disk Utility: Trouble Formatting or Erasing that Windows PC Hard Drive?

June 22, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Mark

So you are trying to format a drive you know is setup for PC or Windows. You keep getting an error stating Disk Erase failed, or /dev/rdisk1s1: partition size not a multiple of 4K. Its not so much an error, but rather a common oversight.