folder password

Is it possible to password protect an entire folder in Zorin OS 9?

http://www.upubuntu.com/2013/01/easily- ... -your.html

If this is not what you want:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st12709690 which points to this:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux- ... -linux/67/

Thanks. The second & third links look like they deal with disks. I just want to protect a folder on USB drive. The first link looked like it was the right thing, but the "other options" where I could put a password did not light up to be accessed. It will compress, but without the option to put in a password.

The compression element will depend on extension type:

Password supported compression file extensions:

.7z, .cbz, .exe, zip

.7z also has the additional options of encrypting the list of files and splitting into different volumes (spanning):

Thanks. I tried this, but it seems Archive Manager is what has to be used to open it, it is very cumbersome, and once opened I think I would have to delete what has been extracted if I want to keep others from seeing the list of files, etc. I really want to have a password that has to be used to see the contents of the folder and open it, and once I am done and close the folder, it goes back to needing a password again. I want the folder to act like a password protected file. Better yet, it would be nice if a whole USB thumb drive would require a password and act like an individual file that is password protected.

OK, I think it will work. I can use "extract here" and the thing opens. The drawback is that I will have to move the folder files extracted to the trash after each use, and if I modify any of them I will have to create a new compression and delete the old. But I think it is workable for me until something better comes along. Thanks!

Thanks Gizmuntu... didn't know you had put this up because email notification apparently went into spam folder. There's a lot to look at in that link.