FILE VAULT & QUICKEN

Will file vault on my home directory interfere with Quicken?

I may need you to rephrase as I had a little trouble following you.
I don't know if this will help or not.
FileVault is really just an encrypted disk image that OS X understands and uses. The image is mounted at which point you can read and write the contents inside. What makes FileVault what it is is that instead of it being mounted and simply appearing as a volume attached to the machine it instead points your normal home folder to it so all normal operations involving your home folder aren't even aware of what is happening. It is mounted when you log in and stays mounted until you log off. All files are written as you go along rather than at the end.
Now if Quicken did for some reason save something outside of Users/your_username then you're correct, there is a copy being stored that is unencrypted. Saying that I assume that Quicken would save any files it opened in the original place when closing down which would have to happen before logging out.
So if your worry is Quicken saving copies in non-default areas and the possibility of others seeing the unencrypted files then you might be best talking to Quicken support. They should be the authoritative source for locations they save user's data files in, temporary or otherwise. If though, it only uses the users home folder which includes not only your documents but the user's Library folder which contains Application Support, Preferences and even the user's cache (and a whole bunch of others) then I think you should be fine.
If I've misunderstood you though please say.

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    My saga is a long one. Quick telling: I am the administrator on my eMac, and was locked out of my desktop last spring when the disk became overly full. File vault was turned on, and I was told by my computer repair folks that since the desktop was encrypted, it could not be accessed. A sad situation, since I had not backed up the disk, and had years of family photos that were lost, not to mention iTunes, Quicken, and more.
    Since then I bought a back-up disk, and saved a copy of that desktop, just in case.
    My computer is overly full again, and today I decided to delete my old user account in order to free space. Of the 160G in this computer, 80% was associated with that user (that is, me). I deleted account via the System Preferences window and its Accounts window.
    I emptied the trash, and 'got info' on my hard drive, only to see that nothing had disappeared, memory-wise! I am still nearly full--only having 2G available, rather than the 130 or more that I had hoped to free up.m I restarted too.
    I went to Apple Support to find that one should turn off File Vault before deleting a user account. Unfortunately, this is impossible for me, since I can not/could not access the user account to turn it off.
    SO here is my question: is there a way to delete the files of a user account that had file vault turned on, but that is inaccessible? There is no deleted user file in my User folder, by the way.
    I am not suer what to do. Any help is appreciated.

    Thanks for your insights.
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    I had not emptied the trash, but did now, and the 'get info' on my hard drive still shows that I have used nearly all of my 160 GB.
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    DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named "Hildegarde." The new directory is
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    • 1 folder had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that was repaired.
    Disk Information:
    Files: 552,652
    Folders: 131,014
    Free Space: 2.47 GB
    Format: Mac OS Extended
    Block Size: 4 K
    Disk Sectors: 321,410,736
    Media: HDT722516DLAT80
    Time: 11/28/08 6:54:19 PM
    DiskWarrior Version: 4.1

  • How do I use the remote wipe feature for file vault 2 / lion?

    I tried to find a preference panel. I know that for the ios you have to link/setup your device. I tried the find my iphone web site to see if my computer was listed there and it isn't at the moment. Is this new lion feature only available later with icloud? I checked the lion feature page and it lists it with file vault 2 with no asterisk so my guess is it should already now work.
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    Phillyman

    Hi,
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    I also thought this was one of the more useful features in lion since my family already "lost" an iPad and we liked to delete our data after our alarm and message didn't work for a day.
    I'm sure  apple has it's reasons for not offering the feature just yet but in that case a disclaimer is a must. I would probably drop the reference remote wipe until I have the infrastructure in place.
    Cheers,
    Phillyman

  • How can I login with my admin user after the "file vault-security option" disabled?

    My HD was full. So i deleted the biggest files related to file vault. After that i disabled the file vault option in security preferences, and restarted the machine. When i tried to connect again, appear the message"error in file vault". How can i fix?

    I have the same problem.  My Mac Mini server will not let me reset pram or safemode.  Can't login.  Help

  • Lion OSX File Vault and filesharing with unencrypted users/computers

    How does File Vault 2 work in the following Use-Case? 
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    User A wants to share this file with User B so that User B can finish entering data and adding some calculations. 
    User B is a Windows 7 PC with no disk encryption. 
    User A drops this file on a WIndows file server that both User A and User B has access to. 
    This file server is not an encrypted system. 
    Will the act of User A dropping the file on the file server automatically unencrypt the file so the User B can open the Excel file and work with it?

    The files don't get passed as an encrypted object. They get passed as files. The encryption/decryption works at a level that is transparent to just about everything, includingthe file system.
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  • Forgot Master Password, no acct File Vault: How to get rid of Mst Password?

    Hi -
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    Well, of course, something distracted me, I habitually copied something else on the clipboard, and I lost the Master Password from my clipboard. (I know, I've been kicking myself ever since...)
    Here's my question: The Master Password is not protecting any content in File Vault and I would like to disable the forgotten Master Password and set up one that I really will remember (at least, that's the plan!). How can I do this?
    I deleted the new account and I have only one other which is the primary administrator account that is not protected by File Vault. Thanks in advance for any help on this!
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    See this thread:
    *How to reset FileVault master password*
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5822772
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  • How do I access my encrypted User Account files from my Back Up hard drive?  Time Machine  was used to create the back up disk; File Vault was used to encrypt the files.

    How do I access my encrypted User Account files from my Back Up hard drive?  Time Machine  was used to create the back up disk; File Vault was used to encrypt the files.

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  • You are unable to log in to the File Vault user account "myaccount "...

    I know there are various posts already out there on remedies for recovering your data stored on a FileVault account when you receive the following message at the login screen; *"You are unable to log in to the File Vault user account "myaccount " at this time"*, but this genuinely worked for me despite AppleCare providing absolutely no assistance whatsoever. In fact, if I had followed their advise I'd be inconsolable right now having wiped my MacBook Pro and contemplating the prospect of rewriting my two essays due in 3 days time!
    I, in a moment of shear stupidity, decided to move the sparsebundle file in my one and only account to trash. Thinking nothing of my foolish actions I shut down for the evening without a care in the world. The next day I started up my computer as usual, and as usual I was prompted at the login screen for my password. I entered the correct password, but was alarmed to see the message above flash before my eyes. Without boring you all with what I did over the weekend waiting for AppleCare to open again on Monday morning. Anyway, this post is specifically for people who have put the sparsebundle of their FileVault-enabled account in the trash (NOT anything else!) without emptying it, of course! The other prerequisite is that you must REMEMBER YOUR FILEVAULT ACCOUNT PASSWORD!
    1. Firstly, you must insert *Disc 1 of the Mac OS X Install* discs.
    2. Restart your computer holding down the letter S (make sure you are holding this down BEFORE the start up noise sounds)
    3. Select the appropriate language and continue to the next screen (DO NOT go past the next screen, the WELCOME screen)
    4. At the grey bar at the top, under Utilities, select *Reset Password*
    5. Select the Administrator/Root account and proceed to change the password of this account to test
    6. Confirm the password by reentering it and click Save
    7. Restart your computer and at the login screen you should now be able to select an account named Other
    8. The username for this account is root and the password is test (the password you entered earlier)
    9. Using Finder, locate the Terminal utility, which can be found in *Applications --> Utilities*
    10. Enter the following, ignoring the bold of course (pay attention to lower cases AND spaces!): *defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE*
    11. Hit Enter
    12. On the next line, enter: *killall Finder*
    13. Hit Enter again
    14. Type: exit on the next line and close Terminal
    15. This has enabled the hidden files on your computer to be visible
    16. You then need to locate the sparsebundle file in the trash of your usual account folder (it could be 501, so search for that too) whilst logged in to the administrator account
    17. Once you have found it, click *Go to Folder* under Go in the grey bar and type /Users/
    18. Create a *new folder* at this location with a new username
    19. Move the sparsebundle from its present location to the folder you have just created
    20. Click Get Info on the new folder, and at the very bottom click *Apply to enclosed items*
    21. In *System Preferences --> Accounts*, create a new user with EXACTLY the same name as the folder you created (eg. Folder name = burtreynolds, new user = burtreynolds)
    22. A window should appear if you have done the above correctly stating *A folder in Users folder already has same name, would you like to use it?*
    22. Click OK
    23. Click *Show All* at the top of the Accounts window
    24. Restart your system and log in to the new account you have created
    25. The sparsebundle should now be visible
    26. Double-click on the sparsebundle, it will prompt you to enter a password
    27. Enter the password of your former account (if you have genuinely forgotten this password, I honestly can't help any further at this point)
    28. If the password is correct, the sparsebundle will automatically mount and you will have access to all the files
    29. NEVER EVER USE FILEVAULT AGAIN AND BACK UP ALL DATA YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE!!!
    The above worked for me, and to say I'm mildly annoyed with AppleCare is, well, putting it mildly really!

    I know there are various posts already out there on remedies for recovering your data stored on a FileVault account when you receive the following message at the login screen; *"You are unable to log in to the File Vault user account "myaccount " at this time"*, but this genuinely worked for me despite AppleCare providing absolutely no assistance whatsoever. In fact, if I had followed their advise I'd be inconsolable right now having wiped my MacBook Pro and contemplating the prospect of rewriting my two essays due in 3 days time!
    I, in a moment of shear stupidity, decided to move the sparsebundle file in my one and only account to trash. Thinking nothing of my foolish actions I shut down for the evening without a care in the world. The next day I started up my computer as usual, and as usual I was prompted at the login screen for my password. I entered the correct password, but was alarmed to see the message above flash before my eyes. Without boring you all with what I did over the weekend waiting for AppleCare to open again on Monday morning. Anyway, this post is specifically for people who have put the sparsebundle of their FileVault-enabled account in the trash (NOT anything else!) without emptying it, of course! The other prerequisite is that you must REMEMBER YOUR FILEVAULT ACCOUNT PASSWORD!
    1. Firstly, you must insert *Disc 1 of the Mac OS X Install* discs.
    2. Restart your computer holding down the letter S (make sure you are holding this down BEFORE the start up noise sounds)
    3. Select the appropriate language and continue to the next screen (DO NOT go past the next screen, the WELCOME screen)
    4. At the grey bar at the top, under Utilities, select *Reset Password*
    5. Select the Administrator/Root account and proceed to change the password of this account to test
    6. Confirm the password by reentering it and click Save
    7. Restart your computer and at the login screen you should now be able to select an account named Other
    8. The username for this account is root and the password is test (the password you entered earlier)
    9. Using Finder, locate the Terminal utility, which can be found in *Applications --> Utilities*
    10. Enter the following, ignoring the bold of course (pay attention to lower cases AND spaces!): *defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE*
    11. Hit Enter
    12. On the next line, enter: *killall Finder*
    13. Hit Enter again
    14. Type: exit on the next line and close Terminal
    15. This has enabled the hidden files on your computer to be visible
    16. You then need to locate the sparsebundle file in the trash of your usual account folder (it could be 501, so search for that too) whilst logged in to the administrator account
    17. Once you have found it, click *Go to Folder* under Go in the grey bar and type /Users/
    18. Create a *new folder* at this location with a new username
    19. Move the sparsebundle from its present location to the folder you have just created
    20. Click Get Info on the new folder, and at the very bottom click *Apply to enclosed items*
    21. In *System Preferences --> Accounts*, create a new user with EXACTLY the same name as the folder you created (eg. Folder name = burtreynolds, new user = burtreynolds)
    22. A window should appear if you have done the above correctly stating *A folder in Users folder already has same name, would you like to use it?*
    22. Click OK
    23. Click *Show All* at the top of the Accounts window
    24. Restart your system and log in to the new account you have created
    25. The sparsebundle should now be visible
    26. Double-click on the sparsebundle, it will prompt you to enter a password
    27. Enter the password of your former account (if you have genuinely forgotten this password, I honestly can't help any further at this point)
    28. If the password is correct, the sparsebundle will automatically mount and you will have access to all the files
    29. NEVER EVER USE FILEVAULT AGAIN AND BACK UP ALL DATA YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE!!!
    The above worked for me, and to say I'm mildly annoyed with AppleCare is, well, putting it mildly really!

  • How can I repair a File Vault sparsebundle?

    Apple has directions for repairing a File Vault sparseimage under 10.3-10.4 here:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2631
    I couldn't find anything more up-to-date, so I followed those directions but using the different permissions setup in 10.5. Everything seemed to work fine up until it came time to mount the sparsebundle. It wouldn't mount. I could drag the sparsebundle into Disk Utility, but when trying to "Repair" or "Verify" I get this error message:
    Unable to attach “testserver.sparsebundle”. (Operation not supported on socket)
    \[DUDiskController viewablePartitions\] expecting DUDisk, but got nil
    As I was typing this post, I figured out what to do. Being an Admin doesn't cut it; you have to be root. I did not find it listed online, so I'm jotting it here; do this instead of what Apple says:
    1. Disconnect from the network (turn off AirPort, unplug Ethernet) because we're about to temporarily log in as root, which could leave us exposed.
    2. To enable the root user, open Applications / Utilities / Directory Utility. Unlock the icon with your admin password, then choose "Edit menu > Enable Root User". If this is the first time, enter a password for the root user, or if you have forgotten your root password, choose "Edit menu > Change Root Password".
    3. Log in as root: Log out of the current account, then in the blank login screen, enter "root" as the username along with your root password. Or, if you have fast user switching enabled, make sure you are logged out of the FileVault in question, then pick "Login Window..." from the user menu. If you aren't allowed to type in a user name, open System Preferences > Accounts > Login Options, then disable "Automatic Login" and by "Display login window as" pick "Name and password".
    4. Mount the sparsebundle: From the Finder's "Go" menu, pick "Go to folder..." and enter "/Users/". Drill down to the sparsebundle inside your FileVault account, and double-click it to mount it. When asked for your keychain password, cancel. Then you will be asked for your FileVault account's password. For security, make sure the "Store this password in my keychain" checkbox is NOT checked. Enter your FileVault password. The sparsebundle should mount.
    5. Repair normally from Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility. The sparsebundle should appear as both a disk and a volume in the left pane of the Disk Utility. When done, quit, eject the sparsebundle and log out of the root account.
    6. IMPORTANT: Log back in to a normal administrator account, open Applications / Utilities / Directory Utility, unlock it if necessary, then pick "Edit menu > Disable Root User". Lock the utility and quit.
    7. If you disconnected from the network in step 1, it's okay to reconnect now.
    From a security standpoint, it's best to leave the root user disabled. Most of the time, an admin user can get temporary root privileges; this just happens to be an exception.

    Figured it out and shared solution.

  • Active Directory user passwords on mobile account with File Vault

    Hi all,
    I enabled file vault when I moved to my MacBook Pro. I joined the computer to the domain (after enabling file vault), and logged in with my domain account, creating a managed, mobile account so that I could use the computer when not connected to the domain.
    Active Directory has forced a change in my password for the domain account but I cannot get the password on the Mac to change the password and sync with the domain.
    My account (the one with the changed network password) on the Mac is a standard user account. When I open system preferences, go to Security & Preferences, General, click on the lock to unlock and allow change and then click Change Password  ..., I receive the following error message after going through the steps to change the password:
    The password for the account "user" was not changed. There was a problem with your password. It's possible your system administrator doesn't allow you to change your password. Contact your system administrator for help.
    For Old Password, I used the old network password, the one that I use to log into the Mac. For New Password, I used my new, current password.
    The same result happens when I attempt to change the password from the Users & Groups section of the System Preferences.
    I have logged out and logged in with the user account that is identified as the admin and get a similar (same ?) error when attempting to change the password.
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    Thanks for your insights.
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    I had not emptied the trash, but did now, and the 'get info' on my hard drive still shows that I have used nearly all of my 160 GB.
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    DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named "Hildegarde." The new directory is
    ready to replace the original directory.
    There is not enough contiguous free space for a fail-safe replacement of the directory. It is highly recommended that
    you create 204 MB of contiguous free space before replacing the original directory.
    All file and folder data was easily located.
    Comparison of the original and replacement directories indicates that there will be changes to the number, the
    contents and/or the attributes of the files and folders. It is recommended that you preview the replacement
    directory and examine the items listed below. All files and folders were compared and a total of 14,627,488
    comparison tests were performed.
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    links, indexes and more have been repaired.
    • 1 folder had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that was repaired.
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    Files: 552,652
    Folders: 131,014
    Free Space: 2.47 GB
    Format: Mac OS Extended
    Block Size: 4 K
    Disk Sectors: 321,410,736
    Media: HDT722516DLAT80
    Time: 11/28/08 6:54:19 PM
    DiskWarrior Version: 4.1

  • Is there an issue using file vault 2 on a Mac fusion drive

    is there an issue using file vault 2 on a Mac fusion drive

    I'm using that configuration and it works for me. There have been some reports of kernel panics with FileVault and SSD's. The cause is unknown. Chances are you'll be fine, but make good backups.

  • Can't log in / supposedly file-vault

    I have a power mac, which I recently updated to Lion. I've never used a password before and yet after an unusual abortive boot (unusual boot-sequence which hanged, which I had to hard-reset) I now get a login screen, which since I've never had a login in the first place, I can't get past (tried apple-ID for instance, to no avail).
    I did the usual disk scans from recovery mode (which showed no problems), so I eventually ended up having to bring it in to the local apple-reseller (no 'official' apple-stores here). He says I've enabled file-vault and that he can't get to it without the username and password.
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    I've had a search around, and I can't find any similar problems, so I'm just wondering if anybody on here might know if either:
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    I want to satisfy myself that this is indeed the problem, and if so how could it have come about, so for instance I don't end up doing it again!
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  • How do I transfer my files from Quicken 13 (Windows) to Lion Compatible Quicken 2007

    How do I transfer my files from Quicken 13 (Windows) to Lion compatbile Quicken 2007

    This discussion has selected links to "greatest hits" from the completely obtuse Quicken so-called "Help" database:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/22063897#22063897

  • What happens if you Time-Machine backup an encrypted file-vault HD?

    This is related to my previous post - but deserves special mention for those people who are using time-vault AND Time-Machine.
    My question is this: If the backup of my Hard-drive is encrypted, and I then reinstall from backup, what will this situation likely produce?
    This is what I have done. I also Archived and installed my Mac prior to installing from my Time-Machine backup.
    I now have an error message that displays the following message at the login screen:
    "Unable to log into the file-vault account "......." at this time. An error has occurred."
    My password IS CORRECT. I have not changed it, and the log in window does accept my password, but it doesn't progress any further than the error message I gave above.
    I'm wondering if the encryption process of file-vault is linked directly with the original installation I had of Mac OS-X before I Archived and installed.
    Any thoughts/knowledge/Insight?? I want my old Mac back! (I don't recommend using file-vault). Any body else had this problem or can see what is happening to me here?
    Thank you
    Greg

    I just did a backup, moved a folder with 600mb of images into a different folder, and did another backup. The free space on the backup drive dropped by the size of the folder's contents. The backup copied the files as I watched in System Preferences, and it looked like it was really copying the files to the external drive again. It looks like Time Machine isn't as smart as I hoped in this regard.
    Still - I'd think the wasted space is only in the every-hour-for-the-last-24-hours bucket of Time Machine. I'm guessing the every hour backups are like a sliding window, where a backup that's 24 hours old drops out every hour rather than all the hourly backups getting wiped at midnight and starting over.
    Regardless, only one version of the moved folder will eventually be stored as the daily backup for that day. I don't have proof, but that's what I think.
    So, if you've moved a bunch of folders around or renamed them, the extra copies of the same exact files should drop off within 24 hours.
    That's my interpretation, but I'm in no way positive!! The lengthy Ars review didn't offer an answer to this question.

  • Recovery Partition mandatory for File Vault and unencrypted TM Backup?

    I recently had to setup my Macbook Pro from scratch meaning erasing the whole disk and start from there.
    The update to Lion took already place a while ago and I had File Vault active. After making a last backup using
    TM I erased the disk and all partitions including Recovery partition and used the Leopard system DVD to boot
    the machine.
    From there I used the restore function to restore my TM backup to the MacBook. However, as the drive was
    not partioned and not formated, I had to do this manually. Apparently, the recovery process via TM does not include
    that. After system recovery, I booted from the Macbook and all apps and configuration seemed ok.
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    I am not sure if this is supposed to work like this but I looks rather easy to gain access to application an data of another user if that
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    before I took the latest backup. I could not turn it on, after providing a recovery key and asking me wether I wanted to write it down
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    would not support File Vault. This was GUID and MacOS Extended Journal partition and volume which to my knowledge would
    certainly support File Vault. In fact this is basically what I had before when File Vault was turned on and running.
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    system but there was when I took the latest backup and I do have other means to get the recovery screen. Anyway it seems that
    File Vault required a local Recovery partition and I was wondering if anyone can tell me why this dependency exist. If I write down the
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    Leopard then upgrade to Lion and install all the apps and configure the OS again, would be great? I assume when I am back on Lion and use the TM
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    I am a little concerned about the fact that it seems so easy to gain access to a protected backup and that the TM restore process does not include
    restoring partition and volumes as well. Who knows how many other dependencies exist and users have to reinstall their system again after recovery.
    I was following the recovery instruction of Apple but perhaps someone knows a better way to do this?

    Just an update, I went ahead and installed Lion again over the existing TM restored installation using the Lion Update file and at least File Vault is working. Interestingly, I still do not have a Recover partition so obviously something new for Apple Support to learn.

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