Encryption: Use Filevault or 3'rd party app??

I'm curious, some people say don't use timevault as it's terrible and doesn't play nice with time machine. Others say definitely use a 3'rd party application. I have used and liked products like Truecrypt and PGP.
Can anyone give me advice on the pros and cons of filevault?? Should I skip filevault and use another application?
Thanks!

I would say that Apple has done a good job with the creation of FileVault and would likely recommend that you use it. It's impossible for anyone to get into your FileVault without your username and password, or the master password of the computer, and so if you take good care of that sensitive information then your computer should be completely safe of intruders. I am not exactly sure how FileVault works with Time Machine, but it should also be known for general knowledge that encrypting your home folder does increase the chances of your home drive becoming corrupt, though you would run this risk with third party applications as well. Essentially FileVault does a good job for what it is for, and you don't even know that it is working, and for that reason i recommend it.

Similar Messages

  • Can't use system ringtone in 3rd party apps since OS upgrade

    Yesterday I upgraded the OS on my BB9900 to 7.1 Bundle 2061 (v7.1.0.714 Platform 5.1.0.532). I then had to completely reconfigure BeBuzz LED customiser (v 5.0.40 for OS 7.1) for specific contacts and apps. Before upgrading I had used 3Bells as a contact-specific alert for emails and text messages in BeBuzz. But since the upgrade it won’t let me us 3Bells. If I try, the following message appears:
    “The selected ringtone 3Bells is a system protected file and cannot be accessed by 3rd party apps. Please move a copy of the file to a different folder on your phone. This applies to all ringtones that came preinstalled on this phone”.
    This is very strange, as this restriction wasn’t there before upgrading the OS. My question is, how do I locate the folder where this ringtone file is?
    Q10 | Vodafone UK | London

    +"remove the "com.apple.systempreferences.plist" file...then re-open the system preferences..."+
    And remember to either log out and back in to the account or restart the computer to force the generation of a new prefs file.

  • Desktop freezes while encrypting using Filevault 2 on Lion

    I recently decided to activate Filevault 2. This is my first time using the service in all of OS X. At first turning it on went well, gave me some "safety net" code, wrote it down, and submitted it to Apple for safekeeping too. Then it told me to click restart. The login screen went up fast, which the guide says that it is something I should expect. After logging in with my passwd, I went straight to the Desktop.
    Now this is where the problem is, the Desktop if frozen. Some icons aren't loaded and the SmartReporter is Yellow. I can move the mouse cursor, but it is still useless. I don't know what's going on. The guide says I can use my computer normally while the disk is being encrypted, but the truth is I can't. I can wait for few hours but this might be going in the wrong direction and I don't want to waste much time. I'd like to force shutdown the computer but it might destroy my data. I'd appreciate some help here. Thanks!

    Yeah.... Really.... How was this problem solved?

  • Airprint or third party app

    The configuration is as follows:
    I-Pad2
    Airport Express
    Canon MP260 printer
    The Canon is connected to the Airport via USB.
    There are no other devices (ie: Mac or PC) connected or used in this configuration.
    In all of the discussions and third party apps and websites I've investigated, there is no clear explaination or solution that will allow the I-Pad to print a photo or document (ie:e-mail, pdf etc..) using the configuration I've provided above. In every case you either need a compliant "airprint" printer or have the printer connected to a PC or I-Mac.
    Are there any immediate plans by the folks at Apple to fix the USB port of the AirPort Express to recognize the I-Pad to allow for printing either using Airprint or a third party app.

    to print on a printer one require an interface this interface can be a driver or if the device follow
    an interface like airprint
    since ipad don't have 3th party drivers there are
    the 2 options of
    1 getting a printer which support airprint
    2 a 3th party app from the printer maker
    the airport express can never help you unless you expcet the user to be able to install printer drivers from canon on the airport express itself
    the fact that conon dont have an printing app which works with your printer is canons fault not much apple can do about that
    take it up with canon
    my wifi printer from samsung works fine with printing from the free app samsung released to the app store

  • After encrypting with filevault 2 on mountain lion, safari is extremely slow

    after encrypting with filevault2 on mountain lion, safari is running extremely slow.
    it's taking more than 45 seconds (sometimes a full minute) to load pages.
    my internet speeds are 35 mbps download and 6.35 mpbs upload, so it's not my internet connection.
    i have deleted the cache files and the system preferences.
    i'm finding that chrome is faster, but i'm seeing slowness there too.
    in encrypted using filevault 2.0 yesterday, all software is up to date.
    can anyone please help me with this?  i don't want to have to turn off filevault.
    thanks!

    Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have a wrong owner. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
    Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it, then drag or copy it — do not type — into the Terminal window:
    find . $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID \) -ls
    Press return. The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
    Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.
    If any personal information appears in the output, edit before posting, but don’t remove the context.

  • Remote restart for a Mac using FileVault 2 encryption?

    Does anyone know of a way to perform a remote restart for a Mac using FileVault 2 encryption?  I have some remote Macs for which I'd like to enable full disk encryption with FileVault, but would prefer not to make a physical trip to those machines whenever they need a reboot.  I strongly suspect the answer to this question is "No", without some form of IP KVM, but I figured I'd double-check.  If anyone knows of any reasonably priced Mac-compatible KVMs that would be great too.  Thanks.

    Does anyone have an answer?

  • I purchased my iMac using the same (and only) Apple ID I use to purchase apps. Third-party apps update fine, but the apps that came with my iMac (iPhoto, iMovie, etc) bring up a message saying I have to log in with the account I used to purchase them.

    I used my only Apple ID to purchase my iMac (Intel-based one).  I've never been able to update core apps that came with it.  I can update third party apps I've bought (like Coda), but when I try to update Garage Band, iPhoto, iMovie and so on, a popup message appears saying "You have updates available for other accounts" and "Log in with the account you used to purchase this app in order to update it", or similar (see screenshot above).
    The OS seems to get its updates fine - it's just the core apps from the App Store.
    I've only ever had one Apple ID, so I have no idea what to do.  I went to ask the Genius bar at my local Apple store, and they couldn't help, and insisted that I must have purchased the iMac using a different account, but I definitely didn't.  There are a few posts on non-Apple forums of this happening to other people, so it must be a rare bug.
    I'm a little concerned it may affect my ability to update from Lion to Mountian Lion.  Can anyone help?
    Dan

    Have you done a Disk Repair and a Disk Permissions Repair?
    If that doesn't resolve the problem I would suggest calling customer support about this issue as it is most likely on their (Apple's) end that the problem exists. 

  • Formatting music from windows to a mac using third party app

    i used a third party app so that i could download music from a pc onto my os x formatted ipod. initially it worked when i moved the music into my itunes library on my mac, but for some reason now a lot of the tracks won't play and my computer freezes if i press play on any track that originally was downloaded onto a pc. is there a way to identify where the songs came from and then delete then from the library without going through each one a seeing if it will play and then having to force quit itunes because it freezes?

    From what I know, windows will not recognize the complicated data of a mac formatted device; hence not recognizing it. Macs can recognize a windows formated ipod though, so if you decide to reformat it on windows, then you can use it on both computers. If you dont though, looks like you are out of luck, sorry.
    Hope I helped.

  • Third Party Apps Not Opening on iPhone 5 using iOS 6.0.2

    I have an iPhone 5 and am using iOS 6.0.2 and recently certain third party apps like Facebook, Instagram, Shazzam for instance, no longer open.  When I tap on the app, the app comes up on the screen for about a second, and then closes.  What's strange is that I've been using iOS 6.0.2 and have also been using the most updated versions of the apps without any issues.  The crashing started happening around last Friday.  Here's what I've tried to do to fix the problem so far but none of these options have worked:
    - I restarted my phone by holding down the home button and the lock button. 
    - I turned my phone off and turned it on again. 
    - I deleted the apps and reinstalled them and then restarted my phone. 
    - I downloaded a random free app, opened it, and then tried opening the apps that kept crashing.
    - I restored my phone and synced it using the most recent back up I had, which was from earlier that day. 
    I did find a temporary solution, that allows the apps to open but I think it's because the apps are not the most recent versions. 
    - I restored my phone and set it up as a new phone.  The phone then downloaded all of the apps again and re-synced everything.  The apps did open after that however, when I went to the app store, it said that I had 24 available updates.  I updated all of the apps to their most up to date versions and then noticed that they once again stopped opening and would crash almost immediately after launching them. 
    - I then restored my phone again and set it up as a new phone and did not update the 24 apps and all but one of them work.  The only app that I've noticed that still doesn't work is the Blackboard Eats app.  It still crashes almost immediately after launching it. 
    I took my phone to the Genius Bar this weekend (which is where I was told to restore the phone and set it up as a new phone).  I'm thinking that the issue is purely a software issue, but is there any chance that it could be a hardware issue? 
    I suppose I could just not update the apps, but I'm hoping there's a better solution than that.  What's weird is that the phone was working with iOS 6.0.2 and all of the most up to date versions of the apps less than a week ago and it seems that somehow, overnight, they stopped working. 
    Is anyone else running into this problem?  Has anyone found a solution? 
    Thanks in advance,
    Kevin

    The music player does not remember where the last session ended.  I have about 1000 songs on my iPhone.  I play the songs in the Shuffle mode - and it worked fine on iOS 5.x.  Ever since I updated to iOS 6.0, the shuffle seems to be seriously broken.  It repeats the song sequence of previous session in the exact order instead of starting from where the session ended.  God forbid if your last session was 10-25 songs long - you'll have to hit the Next song so many times to listen to something that you have not heard for a while.

  • Is it possible to use Fingerprint recognition in iOS7 in third party app?

    We are trying to develop an app which need to include Fingerprint recognition in iOS7. We searched lots of communities to find the solution, but haven't get any correct information. Somewhere written that the Fingerprint recognition only use in native app in iPhone 5S. But we can not use that hardware (Home button)/api in third party app. I am not confirmed yet. So is it possible to use that functionality in a third party app development?

    hi friend,
    i am facing problem with my fringerprint machine.i dont have any idea how to connect that macine with my system and how to extract that fingerprint machine data in to my application witch is build up into Apex.
    i want to use fingerprint machine to manage Employee Daily attendance.But i dont know how can i do this in apex.
    if you have any idea please help me
    Thanks
    Manoj Kaushik

  • On the iMac Retina how do you scale to 5K without using a third party app?

    On the Apple website there is a statement suggesting that using FCPX a 4K video can be seen in native resolution and still have room for timeline and tools etc. Without resorting to use of a third party app how do you adjust an iMac retina OSX and FCPX to achieve this?

    Thanks for your comment
    I would have thought so too however having now visited two local Apple stores and asked staff how to see a 4K video at full resolution none of them could show me. The resolution settings of the iMac Retina are way below the full 5K. At optimised for Retina its understandably half but even when settings are adjusted to highest resolution it is nowhere near 5K - it gets scaled to somewhere between 3-4K. There is talk of "content awareness" but this didn't seem to have much impact when using Quicktime or FCPX to view the sample 4K video files (checking info on these files reveals they are 4K images but when viewed the  resolution was lower).
    I am aware third party apps (such as RDM) can be used to get greater control over what resolutions the display gets run at but from the description on the Apple website I would expect this adjustment to be able to be made in OS X.
    Quote from Apple iMac Retina pages:
    "The sheer number of pixels on the new iMac with Retina 5K display lets you view the latest high-resolution 4K video at 100 per cent, while still leaving plenty of room for your assets and timeline."
    So how do you achieve this? The iMac Retinas I tried in store did not show this.

  • When I use filevault, will it work well with time capsule? will my bakcup be encrypted aswell?

    At our home we want to use filevault and by timemachine we want to get a backup on our timecapsule. I heard some problems some time ago about encrypted backups. How is that now we have lion? Will our backup be encypted? Is there anywhere an article that I can read with this kind of answers? I just cannot find it.
    Greatings en thanks!

    Can I use Time Machine with File Vault?

  • Is it still necessary to use a third party app in order to stream SiriusXm radio signal via iTunes?  Would like to use iTunes to handle the signal and send out to remote speakers?

    Is it necessary to use a third party app in order to stream SiriusXm signal via iTunes to my remote speakers?

    Is it necessary to use a third party app in order to stream SiriusXm signal via iTunes to my remote speakers?

  • How to use the third party apps?

    I see Apple has put some third party apps on their site, but how do you download them and use them for itouch?

    I think you are talking about WebApps?(http://www.apple.com/webapps/). If you are they cannot be downloaded, but can be bookmarked to your homescreen if you purchased the update. If you didn't purchase the update they can be added to your Bookmark section. To access them you will need an internet connection.
    Message was edited by: connorbj

  • How to Launch a downloaded third party app from my own app on the iPad using objective c

      How to Launch a downloaded third party app from my own app on the iPad using objective c

      How to identify whether the third party app has registered URL scheme or not. I also send a request mail to the third party app developers regarding URL scheme, but there is no reply from them.

Maybe you are looking for