Editing FileVault (section)

===Manual encryption===
Instead of using FileVault to encrypt a user's home directory, using [[Disk Utility]] a user can create an encrypted disk image themselves and store any subset of their home directory in there (for example, {{mono|~/Documents/private}}). This encrypted image behaves similar to a FileVault encrypted home directory, but is under the user's maintenance.

Encrypting only a part of a user's home directory might be problematic when applications need access to the encrypted files, which will not be available until the user mounts the encrypted image. This can be mitigated to a certain extent by making [[symbolic links]] for these specific files.