Make An Encrypted Usb Drive For Mac
If you prefer to create a virtual encrypted disk within a file (which can be placed on the USB drive along with unencrypted files), choose the Create an encrypted file container option instead. This article is about creating an encrypted USB drive though. Jul 24, 2018 - USB sticks are handy little storage extensions. They make it easy to transfer data from one computer to another and they help you keep private.
How to Easily Encrypt a Flash Drive on a Mac Mac OS 10.9.x “Mavericks” Edition ( NOTE: This was written for OS X 10.9 “Mavericks.” If you’re looking for the OS X 10.11 “El Capitan” edition, please click. If you’re looking for the macOS 10.12 “Sierra” edition, please click. For the YouTube video for Sierra edition, click.) Like many of my clients and friends, I use a flash drive (also known as a “USB drive” or “Pen drive” or “Thumb drive” etc.), for backing up important files.
One of the things I’ve noticed, though, is how many people put sensitive and personal data on these flash drives but don’t even bother to encrypt them. The reason it’s important to encrypt these flash drives is because these flash drives are usually physically small and can be easily misplaced, lost or stolen. If they are encrypted, you don’t have to worry about the data on them being accessible to someone that may have stolen your flash drive or happened to have found it lying around somewhere. Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” and later operating systems make it easy to do a full disk encryption of these flash drives. You can also easily encrypt Secure Digital “SD” cards too! SD cards are typically what is used in digital cameras to record the images taken with the camera.
Most Macs have built-in SD card slots so Apple has made SD cards very easy and convenient to use. In order to encrypt a flash drive or SD card (we’ll call them “media” collectively from this point onward), you should either start with brand new media or prepare to reformat the media that you may already have. Please note that when you reformat this media, you are effectively erasing it so any existing data (e.g. Files, folders, programs, etc.) will be lost!
If you’re using existing media, you should consider copying or backing up the data on that media to another media first so that you can then copy it back to the encrypted media later. The first thing you need to do is insert the media into your Mac.
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Afterwards, go to your Mac’s Applications folder and locate the Utilities folder. Inside the Utilities folder, you’ll find the Disk Utility application.
Double-click on its icon to launch it. You should see a window on your Mac similar to this screenshot: In the screenshot above, I’ve selected my 8GB flash drive by clicking on it once in Disk Utility (highlighted in yellow). Once selected, I then clicked on the Erase tab. I then changed the format type to “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)” using the drop down box as shown in screenshot (highlighted in blue). At this point, you can type in a name for your media. Naming your media can help you keep your media organized. After all, most of us have several of media, right?
Giving them names helps us keep them straight! Click the Erase button in the lower right-hand corner of the window and Drive Utility will then prompt you to enter a password before it begins the process to erase and encrypt the media. Please remember to use a password that is not only hard for someone to figure out but one that you can easily remember. Please also note that if you cannot remember the password you used when formatting and encrypting the media, then you will not be able to access the data contained on that media. You will also be given the opportunity to give yourself a “hint” on what the password is. I’d recommend writing a hint that you can figure out but would be meaningless to someone who doesn’t know you.