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> Those terms would be more true to form, of what's actually being done.
>
> But perhaps too technical for the target audience? Thoughts?
I agree about the use of "mounting" and "unmounting" being too technical for this application. With a layperson it might also lead to confusion with the need to unmount external drives before they're detached - we don't want to give the impression that the encrypted data are somehow outside of the user's home directory. Although not technically correct, I think the use of "encrypt" and "decrypt" convey the right sense of what is being done, from the end-user's perspective.
If we're having checkboxes for both auto-mount _and_ auto-unmount, I wonder whether they might be better moved off of the main UI and into an options screen. The button to (un)mount ~/Private could potentially be used very frequently, whereas it is likely that these options will be touched only very occasionally. As such it might be worth moving them out of the primary UI, partly to avoid accidental clicks on them, and partly to simplify the main screen.
Of course this then raises the question of how to open such an options screen - adding another button to the primary UI kind of defeats the purpose. I would suggest a menu bar, with nothing more than File>Quit and Edit>Preferences on it. Thoughts?