Geert JM Vanderkelen

I had looked a bit around on how to mount an encrypted disk image (on which I store my email) on MacOSX. The reason is because of laptops are easily stolen, and we have to make sure that cached email can’t be accessed by criminals.

Most solutions where about scripts, complicating things. My colleague Johan came up with the solution today. It’s just.. ridiculously easy!

* Mount your disk image and see it appear on your desktop
* Open System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items
* Drag and drop the mounted disk image from your desktop in the login items list
* That’s it!

I have checked the ‘Hide’ option. It still shows on my desktop, but not in Finder. Not sure if that is what it really does, but I’ll leave it like that.