Ghost Sphere for Mac
Hides a folder and its contents.
Free
In English
Version 2.7.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Ghost Sphere overview
Ghost Sphere can just hide complete folders from others eyes. To archive this goal, the software uses three ways to hide and protect your folders. Your folders are even hidden in Spotlight searches.
Hackers and users with advanced skills could, with particular expertise, recover the invisible folders. However, for the very great majority of users, access to these folders becomes impossible. This is also a good way to protect your folder from being erased or modified by other users like your children.
Ghost Sphere also creates and handles 128 or 256bit AES encrypted Disk Images. These images are hidden, shown, mounted and unmounted by Ghost Sphere. The Encrypted Sparse Disk Images are Apple Standard and grow with the content. If you try to mount them manually the password is required.
Ghost Sphere can apply a special lock on the images to make them unusable in the Finder.
You can install the Mobile Edition from within Ghost Sphere on mobile drives, usb sticks and so on, so that you can access your data even on systems without Ghost Sphere.
A short list of the most important features:
- Easy to use interface
- Chameleon effect
- Automated show/hide function
- Password protected
- 448bit encrypted database
- Build-in help
- Vault creation
- Mobile Edition included
What’s new in version 2.7.0
Version 2.7.0.
- Build with compiler 2011 R4.
- Removed serial number check and activation.
Ghost Sphere for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.7.0
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Jun 30 2012
Version: 2.7.0
"To archive this goal"?
I think you must have meant -- To achieve this goal. :-)
Sep 15 2011
Version: 2.5.2
I have been using GS for long time, But I feel it became ridiculously easy to uncover the folders + change permissions. The level of safety is definitely not suiting me anymore.
Apr 7 2011
Version: 2.5.0
I've been using GhostSpher since 2007 and it has done its job very well. Last week my mac had some problems that I repaired but gs would not make my folder accessible. After trying all that I know, which isn't very much, I wrote to the developer at spherecorner.com and related the problem. He replied quickly and made some suggestions which didn't work. We traded a couple of emails, I gave more info and he came up with a list of 4 things to try, one at a time... and the second item on his list did the job. My files are accessible again, GS is working perfectly and I can't thank Pascal enough for his commitment to supporting his very good app. That kind of support elevates a great app to further hights. Thank you again Pascal.
dan_A
nyc
Oct 12 2008
Version: 2.3.4
This is definitively the best software of this kind I ever had in my hands. It does not just put a dot in front of the name. I'm comfortable in using the terminal and I was not able to access my hidden folder without using all my tricks. Yes, a hacker may access your hidden folders, but a Unix amateur with some knowledge certainly not. When it comes to encrypted disks, even a hacker has no chance.
I love the iPhoto feature. I can now hide my adult photos library and every time I close the software and someone else opens iPhoto again my public iPhoto library is presented instead.
You can do all this with the terminal but not within seconds and with Ghost Sphere you never omit to type a command to ensure that you get no surprise once someone else uses your computer next time.
Greetings from Germany.
Mar 23 2007
Version: 2.0.2
SetFile -a V (file/folder)
Congratulations, you just saved ten dollars. Put your stuff in an encrypted disk image if you really think the bad guys are out to get you.