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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1258434"><p>A DMG file is short for Disk Image. There are two types: fixed and "sparse." As you may already know, a sparse image grows as you put more stuff into it. Storing a sparse image on Dropbox will work fine as long as you're careful not to exceed the 2GB.</p><p></p><p>Apple has a system for encrypting the entire User Folder (not the entire HD, since there's no reason for systems or apps to be encrypted) called FileVault. I would **STRONGLY** recommend you AVOID it -- it is very prone to people forgetting the master password or simply becoming corrupt, and if either of those happens your data is simply gone (there's no way to recover it).</p><p></p><p>Lion (coming next month) will have a new scheme called Filevault 2 -- my advice would be to anyone considering the use of Filevault would be to wait and check out Filevault 2 and see if they've corrected the issues that made the original Filevault a huge disaster for so many people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1258434"] A DMG file is short for Disk Image. There are two types: fixed and "sparse." As you may already know, a sparse image grows as you put more stuff into it. Storing a sparse image on Dropbox will work fine as long as you're careful not to exceed the 2GB. Apple has a system for encrypting the entire User Folder (not the entire HD, since there's no reason for systems or apps to be encrypted) called FileVault. I would **STRONGLY** recommend you AVOID it -- it is very prone to people forgetting the master password or simply becoming corrupt, and if either of those happens your data is simply gone (there's no way to recover it). Lion (coming next month) will have a new scheme called Filevault 2 -- my advice would be to anyone considering the use of Filevault would be to wait and check out Filevault 2 and see if they've corrected the issues that made the original Filevault a huge disaster for so many people. [/QUOTE]
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