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5.
Now you'll be prompted to enter the size of the filestore. If you've chosen
to create the filestore on a USB stick, you'll be told how much free space
is available. You can't enter fractions of a gigabyte or megabyte, so to
enter 1.9GB, for example, you would need to select MB from the drop-
down list and type
1946
into the Volume Size textbox (bearing in mind that
there are 1024MB in 1GB, so 1.9 x 1024 = 1945.6). Once you're done,
click Next.
6.
Now you'll be invited to choose a password for the archive. As always, a
good password involves both lowercase and uppercase characters and
should be as long as you can make it while still being possible to
remember. Avoid clichés or anything else that might be easily guessed.
Click Next when done.
7.
You'll now be asked to choose the filesystem for the filestore. FAT is the
best choice because it's understood by Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Click Next when you've made your choice.
8.
Next you'll go to the volume format screen. However, first you must create
some random data for the encryption process. As strange as it might
seem, this is done by waving the mouse pointer around within the True-
Crypt program window. So, wave the pointer around for a few seconds,
and then click the Format button. After this, the filestore will be created.
This might take some time for larger archives. Once it's done, click Exit.
Accessing the Filestore
After creating the filestore, you must mount it so it's accessible. Follow these
steps to do so—the instructions are essentially the same for versions of
TrueCrypt running on all operating systems:
1.
Start TrueCrypt if it isn't already running, as described earlier, and in
the main TrueCrypt dialog box, select
1
under the Slot heading.
2.
Click the Select File button. Navigate to your new filestore using the file-
browsing dialog box, and click the Open button. Back in the TrueCrypt
window, click the Mount button. You'll immediately be prompted for the
archive's password, so type it. After this, a new drive icon should appear
in the Devices list in the Finder sidebar offering access to the encrypted
filestore, as if a new drive had been connected to the system. It'll probably
be called
NONAME
. You can drag and drop files to it, just like any removable
storage device.
