write protect usb drive with password on both mac & pc

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write protect usb drive with password on both mac & pc

by pi2pi Jan 6, 2013 5:27PM PST

Hi everyone,

Here's the picture. I have an external HDD with files that I pass around. I would like other users to see and read the files inside the HDD, but I do not want them to modify or delete the files by accident.

I need a software that can write protect my external HDD and it has to work on any OS (Mac/ Windows not necessary on Linux).

I have spend the whole day googleing for a software but all I can find are software that work only on Windows. And I'm not looking for encryption software as I need the files to be viewable.

Thank you.

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Thanks for reply but not the answer

by pi2pi Jan 6, 2013 10:50PM PST

Close to 1TB of files? Nope, I don't have the time and patience to upload them. That's a job for an external HDD. Plus, I don't want to rely on the internet to access my files.

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Then make them read-only.

by Kees_B Forum moderator Jan 7, 2013 3:30AM PST

It's easy to undo, but you don't do it by accident. So it's a good protection against human errors assuming that your friends aren't malicious.

Of course you know that disseminating copyrighted stuff (downloaded movies and such) this way is just as illegal as making it available via Internet. So we assume that it are just your own movies you made yourself.

Kees

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Kees_B · Answer 1 · Jan 6, 2013 5:56PM PST

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Re: files

by Kees_B Forum moderator Jan 6, 2013 5:56PM PST

Why not use the cloud? Like Dropbox, Skydrive, Google docs. You put it on and invite the others to download those files.

Kees

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