External harddrive and filefault

Hello,
I just started last year with my first macbook and because I went to Africa for three months I bought an external harddrive. Timemachine was copying everything on the harddrive and then my laptop got stolen. I just bought a new one now but nobody can get anything of my harddrive. It seemed that I put filefault on my stolen macbook and I had no idea. Now people are telling me timemachine put filefault also on the harddrive so it's hard to get something off but I also read that when you have filefault, timemachine only puts stuff on the harddrive when you're logged out. Who knows a solution?

An external hard drive does not work all the time, if the computer goes to sleep, it goes to sleep to. Also, even if computer is active, it goes to sleep if no activity with it. How it works exactly depends on the manufacturer and the controller inside, called to optimize such a behavior. I have several such external discs, not all are good at optimizing their performance, but—in general—they behave OK.
If you put computer to sleep, then switch off external disk, you adopt a totally unrecommended solution, as you abruptly interrupt communication between computer and external disk. If you wish to let ED connected to mac all the time, then do nothing, system and ED controller will optimize activity.

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