Mac OS X forum: Password Protect Files or Folders on MAC OS X

If you were using any of the MS Office products then you would apply password protection to the document from within Word/Excel/PowerPower.

In OS X, Windows too, you can protect your files by setting up permissions on the folder in which they are stored.
Using the "get Info" command, you can assign users Read & Write, Read Only, Write Only(A drop box) or No Access.
More information on this can be found in Finder > Help.

Your last sentence is confusing. Do you intend to share these files across a network, with the XP/Vista boxes connecting to the Mac or are you just going to move the folders/files with a thumbdrive?

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Guess the moral of the story is not to let everyone use the same, apparently Administrative, account on your computer.
Ideally, each user of your computer should have their own account and not be sharing an account with others.
This eliminates the problem and allows all users to have their own space that is not violated by other users. These accounts are not Guest accounts, they are regular accounts without Admin rights.

Wonder why it took hours to figure out, when the answer was in the previous post?

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