Do you want to turn on file vault

do you want to turn on file vault

Only if you need it due to security/confidentiality requirements. What it does is encrypt with a strong cipher the contents of your drive. If anything alters inadvertenly the contents or if you forget the password, you will be SOL and LOSE all your stuff.

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Locked out of user after turning off file vault

I was told i had permission issues. I couldn't do simple things like copying files to desktop. Someone told me to turn off file vault. Did it. Now i can't access user at all. Keep getting same message,"...cannot access user at this time..." accompanied by an applications icon. All i really want from that user are my music and photos. Please help, my wife is going to kill me if i lose baby photos.

An update that may help you: I went to my Backups (created in Tiger before I switched) and restored some things from there. Unfortunately it wouldn't give me back everything (iPhoto Library all gone), but I did restore an older iTunes Library and some of my e-mails.
Were you using Backup before you lost everything?

Problem Turning Off File Vault

My computer said it would take just under two hours to turn off File Vault. The process appeared to move along as it was supposed to. After the two hours, a message popped up that "copying is complete." My computer has been stuck on that screen for ten hours. Do I leave it? The "Cancel" button is grayed out. I don't want to lose my information. Your advice would be appreciated greatly. Thanks.

How much free space do you have?
If is possible that you don't have enough free space to turn off FV because it must make an unencrypted version before it can be turned off.
Do you have backups of your data?
Allan

How to kill secure erase after turning on File Vault?

I turned on file vault on my MacBook with OS 10.6.4 and selected the secure erase option for the resulting empty space. The File Vault encryption process completed fairly quickly, but the secure erase has carried on for 48 hours and I'm just at 26% complete as per the security pane of System Preferences.
I'd like to stop the secure erase process. It seems like overkill, and as this computer (and the hard disk) are 4+ years old, I'm thinking the wear and tear on the drive is more than is necessary.
I've tried killing the secure erase process ("sudo kill -9 ...") but the process re-spawns.
My question: is there a safe way to stop the secure erase process after turning on File Vault? (I am fully backed up with Time Machine if that makes any difference.)

Ah-HA! OK, I've fixed the problem the right way now instead of the ugly method of renaming secure_erase, which was admittedly a hack until I had more time to look at things.
The queue for secure_erase is stored in /var/db/fvsecureerase.jobs/ - you need to cd into that directory and look for the files there, and remove them. By deleting the numbered job, you will remove it from the secure_erase queue.
HOWEVER, please look at the files first and then manually delete the file path listed, otherwise you will leave those to-be-destroyed files UNDELETED. This is probably NOT what you want. What happens is that secure_erase moves the "original" files into a new directory (in my case the file was named /Users/jtodd.10307331336706142097) and then secure_erase does it's magic on that directory and wipes out each file in a tedious, secure way. If you made a mistake and don't want to wait the 20 days for it to finish the tedious method, you can just "rm" it the old fashioned way. I typically pipe "yes" into the "rm -R" command since there are a lot of strange permissions things that rm asks about and I would otherwise spend an hour hitting "y" on every file about which it uncertain - hooray for UNIX pipes! For instance, this is a what I did (again, as root):
sh-3.2# cd /var/db/fvsecureerase.jobs
sh-3.2# ls -lsa
total 8
0 drwx------ 3 root admin 102 Nov 12 11:44 .
0 drwxr-xr-x 51 root wheel 1734 Nov 12 11:44 ..
8 -rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 33 Nov 10 13:53 501
sh-3.2# cat 501
/Users/jtodd.10307331336706142097
sh-3.2# rm 501
sh-3.2# yes|rm -R /Users/jtodd.10307331336706142097

Do I need to turn off File Vault before I erase a hard drive?

I have a File Vault 2 password set up on my Mac, in addition to a firmware password. I'm selling the computer, and I want to make sure everything is wiped out.
I know how to turn off the firmware password. However, I was wondering if I need to turn off file vault 2 before I start up the OS in recovery mode, at which point I will erase the hard drive using the 7-pass delete option in disk utility. Or do I not have to worry about that, and go ahead and boot up on the internal system HD in recovery mode to delete the HD entirely, without turning off File Vault first?
Thanks for the help,
Eric

Boot from the installation disc that came with the computer and repartition the internal drive with the default options. Then install the original OS.

Can't turn off File Vault

My initial problem with File Vault was that I am running out of space even though the drive has additional capacity. In an earlier post I learned that this is due to the fact that when File Vault is turned on it is effectively it's own volume. Unfortunately I do not have enough disk space to turn off File Vault. I installed a new 500GB drive and installed Leopard. When I attempt to turn off File Vault I am still getting a message that I do not have enough disk space to turn it off. It appears as though the additional space is required on the same File Vault volume regardless of the size of the hard drive. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but this seems absurd.

I am having the same issue. I have 180 GB free on my HD, but my "home" volume only has 15GB free and I cannot turn off File Vault. Other than moving my whole music library and then deleting it, I don;t know how to get the space I need and turn the d..m file vault off.
Gary, if you solved the problem, please let me know how.

Trying to turn off File Vault

I installed Tiger a few weeks ago. My computer says it can't find a video input from my dv camera. I thought it may be due to my Security system so I thought I'd try to turn off File Vault. When I tried to turn it off, it says there is not enough room in my hard disk to do it. It says "Turning off FileVault requires an additional 4084.6 GB of free disk space to create an unencrypted copy of the home folder. Try emptying the Trash or deleting files you don't need."
I have my storage drives partitioned but between all of them I have nearly 500 gb of space not used.
1. I'm not exactly sure what a home folder is?
2. There's no way I can find that many files to delete
3. I'm not even sure File Vault would be a potential problem for issue with the camera link.
Thoughts as to what I need to do would be appreciated.

My question was answered through another question I had which was also answered.

Turning off File Vault issue...

I have file vault enabled on a macbook, and can't turn it off. On the user, there are only 8 GB free space, yet the startup drive has 90 GB free space. When I try to turn off file vault, I get an error that I eed an additional 25 GB free space?
How do I get around this?
Thanks

Update Leopard to 10.5.3. I must warn you that there are numerous bugs in it, but it may or may not happen to you.

Quirks after turning off File Vault

Guys,
I'm noticing a few quirks after I turned off file vault. First when I click on finder, it lists 2 desktops on the left side of the window. I cannot delete the one desktop that apparently has no content or use.
Second, when I turn on my computer there are always recovered files in the trash. How do I stop that?
Thanks,
Ray

If you're talking about two desktops in the sidebar, then click and drag it off the window and it should poof away. Additionally, check Finder->Preferences->Sidebar and tailor it appropriately. I don't use that feature, so maybe I'm missing the point.
when I turn on my computer there are always recovered files in the trash. How do I stop that?
AFAIK, you can't—it's a feature. Just empty the trash and continue on.

Can't turn on File Vault on HFS+(case-sensitive, journal)

Hi Guys
I can't turn on File Vault on HFS+(case-sensitive, journal), OSX10.4.8
I've done disk repair.
Thanks

Hello
I'm sorry I can't help you with your problem, but I do believe, that security-problems should for most users be solved in a different way (e.g. encrypted disk-images). Please read the following post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3583185&#3583185
Good luck!
senex

Unable to Turn Off File Vault - I don't have enough Free Space on my System Drive.. Any Advise?

I am trying to Turn-Off File Vault on my MacBook Pro. The Following Message Appears: There isin't enough Space on your Harddrive to Turn File Vault Off.
It requires an additional 28.7Gb of Free Disc Space on my System Drive to proceed... I currently only have 4,78Gb of Space available on my System Drive..
Any advise on how to do this??

Better yet, could you adjust the size of the partition of your System Partition? I didn't know you had your HD Partitioned, I would really avoid moving the whole Applications folder off it is possible it will mess things up. Maybe give it more room, so that file vault can copy everything over. If that is possible to just take space from the Projects and give it to System, that would be the best option.
Thanks,
Kevin

Turning off File Vault

Turned on file vault a few months ago. Can't be too safe you know. Computer began running erratically. Many many odd things began to happen. iphoto could not find any of my 8000 photos. (photos are still on my hard drive though), Mail keeps making me re-establish mail as if I am a first time user, ical repeatedly dumps everything, items show up on my dock that weren't there before, items missing from the dock, lost all 200 of my bookmarks in Safari, all my system preferences are constantly being reset.
Called Apple support. He told me that I shouldn't have turned on file vault. Should only be used by government types. (my opinion is it shouldn't be used by anyone other than those who have a desparate desire to reload all of their software and OS) So we tried to turn off file vault. At that time there was 18 gigs free. File vault says there is not enough room to turn off. Apple rep tells me to buy an external hard drive to copy everything over and then reinstall the OS and all of my software and then bring over my files from the external hard drive. (Sound good so far?) I can't wait to start this process as I have loads of free time and nothing better to do with my life anyway! Oh, and I made an appt with an Apple Genius at the Genius bar at the Biltmore in Phoenix. He told me that I needed to do the same thing. When he tried to turn off file vault, it showed, for some reason, that now only 3 gigs were free. File vault said that if there was only 1kb more free space it could be turned off. So we deleted about a 130 MB of data, and file vault still came up with the same msg. So, after being told that apple does not provide this service and that I would have to fix this problem on my own, I walked out of the store with a brand new Iomega 160GB external hard drive and $160 less in my wallet, all the while veins bulging from my neck, blood pressure shooting through the roof and anger levels normally reserved for things like pay cuts and lost pensions. . So... now I am about to begin my wonderful adventure. First question I have is...If I transfer everything on my computer over to the Iomega while file vault is turned on, how will that effect the files that I bring back over to the Mac that now has file vault turned off? Do I have to bring back the files and programs, one by one by one, or is there a way to restore the entire thing with one operation? Will I get back my iphoto photo albums and all of my slideshows ? (I'm on my knees praying on this one)
Anyway, thanks for listening and for any help , or suggestions you may have and if I may say to others out there... never, ever, ever turn on file vault
P.S. I was a long time windows user, switched to Mac about a year and a half ago. Fell blissfully in love...until now. What made me switch to a Mac was the day that I was re-installed my operating system on my PC for the 6th time in 2 months. I've come full circle.

you would think, seeing how this is obviously a known bug, that apple would do a better job of explaining the setbacks of using FileVault. unfortunately, most of us "common people" aren't privy to this type of information until it's too late..as we're relentlessly searching forum posts at 2am because our 2 week old computer is riddled with error messages.
to my recollection, i never even activated FileVault. as i recall, i first noticed it when i installed Tiger, so i just wrote it off as a new feature. in fact, it ran successfully until i transfered all of my data from my old PowerBook over to my new iMac and then updated to Leopard. now, out of my remaining 233GB available, it's telling me i have less than 1GB left in my home folder. and, as everyone else has been saying, trying to just simply turn FileVault off is futile. it seems that no matter what you're going to get some sort of contradictory error message. for instance, i've only used 37GB of space in my home folder, yet when i go to turn FileVault off it tells me that i need to delete 41GB before i can turn it off. interesting.
fortunately i already have a 500GB external drive that i've since backed the entire contents of my HD onto. however, i'm curious, as captainphx's question from his initial thread went unanswered..if i copy these (encrypted) files over to my external drive, do a clean install of the OS, ensure that FileVault is turned OFF, then copy the files back to my iMac, will there be complications?
i'm going to attempt to call apple support tomorrow, so hopefully i can get this resolved. i'll follow up with the results of that discussion. if apple's not going to make this information readily available then, by god, i will.

Where has 'do you want to replace this file' gone when copying items in lion?

Hello, can anyone tell me if I can still have the option when copying items from one folder to another to be asked ' do you want to replace this file' instead of only having the new options to: stop / keep both / or replace all? thanks for your help.

If you don't mind losing them, it's all right to do it.
Maybe you just want to delete them instead?
Or do you mean you want to replace the faulty one in your Projects folder with a correct one from your Applications folder?
Is this the Application you're talking about moving?

Warning when trying to launch application over mapped drive "We can't verify who created this file. Are you sure you want to run this file?"

We have 2 load balanced application servers that map drives with programs on them for users from a central server that are giving the warning "We can't verify who created this file. Are you sure you want to run this file?". Basically how it works
is a user logs in to one or the other application servers (for example, 10.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.2) and runs a log on script that maps an L:\ drive to the users folder on the central storage server (10.0.0.100). When the user goes to launch the .exe from the L:\
drive it presents that warning.
I've looked around and have seen recommendations that you need to add the site to the local intranet zone for IE, but when I try to add L:\ it tells me that I have entered an invalid sequence. It appears that you can only put network shares in that location,
which is not how we're mapping the drive.
Has anyone run in to this before and knows how to resolve it?
Thanks!

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I can't turn off file vault

I was installing stuffit de luxe but i can't turn off file vault -- i receive en error
and computer restart without decripting my vault.
Does anybody knows how to fix this problem?

The only way I found to deal with that problem is to back up the disk drive to an external disk drive, them reformat the File Vaulted drive and copy the original data back to it.

Do you want to turn on file vault

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