If you have an Apple Mac then you know that sometimes it will need to go in for repair and that it will have to be shipped away to the Apple Care Staff. Now if you have files on your computer that you don’t want the care staff too see then you can do one of a few options in order to help protect the files from being viewed. Here is my list of ways to hide your files on a Mac.

1. One option is trying FileVault which if you set-up an administrator account then Apple Care shouldn’t be able to view anything.
2. Create an encrypted disk image then copy the files into it and set it up with a password.
3. Clone the drive to the external.

Those are three ways you can stop Apple Care Staff from accessing your files. I also would highly suggest tat you back-up any and all files that are important to you if you want to be able to sleep at night while your Mac is in the shop. I have read elsewhere that people have had problems with getting back drives reformatted and different account log-ins etc. To avoid this happening to you and countless of hours of work gone due to not backing up your site take the time and do so. It only takes about 20 minutes to back-up your drives and it will save you a ton of time compared to if something went wrong at Apple and you lost all your files.

Don’t leave this one in the hand of Apple Care Staff take it into your own and develop a plan from the get go so you can ensure your files safety. First off make sure you either do steps 1, 2, or 3, and then you will want to create the back-up for your files. Once these two things are complete then you are ready to send your Mac into get repaired. 

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