FileVault 2 reinstall os
Hello.
Lets say I forgot FileVault 2 encrypted mac password.
and now I want to reinstall OSX.
Can this be done like you do without filevault 2 with the command r thing?
Guitar21,
your MacBook Pro has booted into its Recovery mode. From the OS X Utilities menu, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Does it get to the login screen now?
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Time machine restore destroys the recovery partition
Hi
I wanted to restore my Lion installation with a Time Machine backup. So I restarted the computer with cmd+r and choose Time Machine restore.
After the restore everything works except FileVault. I can't enable it and when I try I get the error message "Can't enable because recovery partition is not available.".
How can I fix this? The restore from Time Machine works perfect and all files are at my computer but I can't use FileVault. And when I try to reboot with cmd+r so will it get the rescue information from the internet instead of the disk. So I'm thinking that the fault is that Time Machine deletes the rescue partition or disables it in the restore.
How can I restore from Time Machine and later use FileVault?Reinstalling Lion worked. First restore and later reinstall... maybe not as good as advertised but it works.
Pondini I'm evaluating TM as backup software so there was nothing wrong with the installation just I wanted to test to make a restore so the day when it doesn't work I know what can be done.
Sadly I'm not that impressed about Apples Time Machine at the moment. -
Here's the ordeal. I'm running a 2007 MacBook Pro 17 inch with Lion OS. When I converted to Lion, I didn't have enough room on my harddrive to convert to the new FileVault, so I remained on the old system. Less than a week ago I reboot my computer because iPhoto seems to be stuck on "cataloging" my photos, though after days of letting it run, it doesn't do anything. After the reboot, my computer appears as if it had been reset to factory settings with all my programs gone, etc. I'm like, hey, I've got Time Machine, I'll restore it. After the restore is run, when I go to login, I get the dreadful error message, "You are unable to log into the FileVault user "John" at this time. Logging into the account failed because an error occurred". I searched the internet via my iPhone for suggestions and followed everyone of them, all the way down to erasing my harddrive and reinstalling Lion. So I get back into my computer and think I'm golden. I go to restore my computer via Time Machine and wham....I'm right back to that error message. I think, ok, I'll do it again. This time it messes us even more, giving me two login screens, one for the new Lion like before I restored the computer and then a second, as if it were restored, but unable to login. On top of that, I couldn't get back to the Command-R page! I thought I was really screwed! Well, I finally figured a way back, or maybe it was just that it finally decided to cooperate, I don't know, but I erased my harddrive again, and reinstalled again and thought, well, I'll rebuild manually by selecting what I want to restore from the Time Machine drive. I was able to get all my applications back and running, but to my dismay, I seemingly have lost all my iTunes music (except that which Apple has graciously setup to redownload now "thank you!) plus all my iPhoto's and even worse, all my DOCUMENTS!!!! Here I thought Time Machine from backing all this stuff up, but with over a years worth of back-ups I cannot locate any photos, music, or my documents on my drive to extract! Needless to say, I will never be using Time Machine again to back up my computer, I'll find another program or at least do it all manually. But my question is: am I looking in the wrong places for this files? Are they hidden under some unknowning folder that doesn't list it as music, photos or files? I can manage with the music, I can live with the photos because my wife has many of them on her computer and I have many uploaded to Facebook, but my files! My documents, thousands of them, many with information I won't be able to compile again, seemingly gone unless someone out there has any ideas?!!!
I even had iPhoto search the drive for photos and after hours of the barber shop pole spinning I cancelled the command for I figured it wasn't going to find anything.
If anyone has any suggestions, or if Apple, you are reading this and can provide some direction, I would greatly appreciate it.Also - my battery has been telling me "service battery" for a LONG time and then it switched to "replace soon" som time ago. Can't really see what this has to do with anything but whatever.
That could conceivably explain all the problems you're describing. Replacing a Mac's battery should not be postponed since a failed battery will cause other problems to occur. It is also possible that its hard disk has failed, which means the information on it may soon become unrecoverable.
... my latest TM back up was from April 2014, can I just run this when I have rescued everthing and then it might not be as slow?
If that Time Machine backup remains intact, it may be the only viable means of recovering that Mac's information. I suggest you do not attempt to restore its contents to your ailing Mac.
Given that you are having trouble creating a newer Time Machine backup you should stop using that Mac immediately and have it serviced as soon as you are able. Do not take it to anyone other than Apple or a service facility authorized by Apple, for the very reasons you explained. If there are no Apple Stores in your vicinity search for an Authorized Apple Service Provider using the Contact Us link below. Use one of the options that appear under Contact Apple Support. The language on that page will be different for your location. -
Can apple erase a hard drive with filevault 2 turned on and then reinstall OSX?
Can I take my MacBook Pro to an apple store and have them erase the hard drive and reinstall OSX? If so how much will that cost me?
I believe that's pretty much your only recourse if you forget the password and didn't write down the recovery key or choose to store it with Apple.
If you chose to store it with Apple, you can have them retrieve it for you if you answer the three security questions.
Really, with FileVault, the recovery key is crucial. You MUST keep a safe copy of it.
Matt -
I have TWO PROBLEMS
No 1. I can not activate FileVault. It displyas as follows :
FileVault can’t be turned on for the disk “Macintosh HD”.
Some disk formats don’t support the recovery partition required by encryption. To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted disk.
No 2. I can not activate Find My Mac service. It displays as follows :
Find My Mac requires a recovery partition
Some configurations, such as software or hardware RAID, do not support a recovery partition and can't be used with find my macRestart holding down the option/alt key and see if you have a Recovery Volume.
Recovery Partition – Recreate Without Reinstalling
Recovery Partition – Recreate Without Reinstalling (Requires Installer)
Recovery Drive – Restore Missing
Recovery Disk Assistant -
Forgot FileVault 2 password to Macbook Air, how to reinstall?
I have a recent Macbook Air that has file vault 2 installed. I reset my password this morning, but cannot remember it at all this afternoon. I have all my files backedup so I am not worried about data loss. So I went to do a reinstall from the recovery partition and its asking me for my password... which is the password I do not know. I also do not remember putting the recovery key down anywhere (stupid I know).
How can I just reinstall Mavericks on the system now?Apple has not provided an easy way to recover from this condition. See this thread.
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Recovery from FileVault backup disk
I have a friend who had Filevault active and suspected it was causing problems so he disabled it following the instructions to the letter. After working for over an hour, it said it was done and when he restarted it would not boot. He took it to the local Apple store for "recovery" but it appears that all that was done was to erase the drive and reinstall the OS. He has a Lacie drive that he kept a backup on but it appears not to have a user folder for his account. Is it encrypted and therefore invisible? If so, what can be done to recover the data?
G5 2.0 DP, MacBook Pro 17 Mac OS X (10.4.8)Boot from the LaCie, assuming that his backup is bootable. that should allow the user's folder to decrypt. Once that's finished, then drag & drop the user's folder onto the Mac Book's User folder. Finally, do a search for file vault or filevault, review the postings, and decide whether or not to ever reenable it.
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My 2009 MacBook Pro keeps restarting even after I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled OSX.
About a month ago, my laptop started to randomly turn off: I would be using either Chrome, Photoshop (the free CS2 version available from Adobe's website) or Powerpoint, and the screen would go blank. I would then have to hold the power button for a while until the little light at the front of the computer would flicker and it would restart. I brought it to the Mac Store where they tested it and said it looked fine. They suggested I erase my hard drive and reinstall OSX as a precaution.
Fast forward a month, I have been very busy with work and hadn't been able to fix this problem. It wasn't that bad, only once every couple of days, sometimes more, sometimes less, I could work despite this problem.
Then, I installed OSX Mavericks. The installation started in the morning, but, like an idiot, I paused it to go to work. Later on, I completed the installation, it looked fine, but then all day long my laptop would suddenly restart and go to a grey screen that said in multiple languages "Your laptop restarted because of a problem, press any button to continue the restart." A computer technician friend of mine checked it out and said it was probably due to the badly installed OSX and suggested that I erase my hard drive and reinstall OSX.
I backed up all my files, erased the hard drive and reinstalled OSX. Everything looked fine.
Then it happened again.
Any ideas of why this is happening?Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a Fusion Drive or a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test. -
Unable to log in due to FileVault error
1) I am just more capable with computer issues than a cave-dwelling Luddite so I will apologize in advance as I'm sure the problem is my fault & I am desperate.
2) I am the only account on my computer & I have admin privileges
3) I'm sorry if I ramble but I want to make sure I give enough info to tailor this question to my specific problem
In 2008, My MBP came with Snow Leopard. I'm almost positive I created my account with the account name & short name Chocolime. I have since changed the account name (the name I use for my HD icon & the name that appears next to my house icon) to Psychosquint. I am not computer savvy but I am OCD & have to click on all settings & preferences to see what I can do (this is my first Apple product). I obviously turned FileVault on.
I'm not sure when or why (even tho based on other posts, it's an encryption/decryption thing!?)...but I noticed that my HD was almost at full capacity (320gb) but all I use my computer for is web surfing & iTunes (max 100gb of media). I feel like I noticed this when I downloaded the Lion upgrade to my computer from the apple store. At some point I noticed in System Preferences, that now I have Legacy FV & FV. I turned FV on.
I started having to restart my computer anytime I deleted a significant amount of trash in order for my computer to show the correct space available (the amount shown when I right click my HD icon (the only icon on my screen) and select get info
I turned FV off, but was told I needed 245gb of space to turn off Legacy FV. I have to continually manage the media on my computer to have 10gb available for use, so Legacy FV is still on
Over the years, I notice that altho my user name is now Psychosquint, sometimes I would see a path file?! that always still had username chocolime (e.g. when shown where a file would download to. So I had the brilliant idea to fix this. I search this forum & found that I could go to System Preferences--Users, right click my name and change chocolime to psychosquint. I did that in both lines where chocolime was the name. I was prompted that changing this could mess up something if the name didn't match my home folder name or something, but I'm the only user & I checked that my folder was labelled psychosquint (all lowercase) & I clicked ok. I was told that I had to restart my computer to take effect & BLAMMO...now I can't log in
Started up in recovery mode. Reinstalled Lion, no change
Started up in recovery mode. Used Disk Utility to repair disk, got a green message that all was ok. Now am in the process of reinstalling Lion again (I know the definition of crazy is doing things over & over expecting different results )
So I would just find someone to wipe my computer & start from new as I don't have any programs installed that couldn't be re-downloaded but.....wait for it....here's my second conundrum:
I have an app call Quickreader. Within iTunes, when my ipad mini is plugged in so the apps tab is available, of you scroll down...this app shows up in File Sharing (I think that's the name). It's the place where you can add files. I've got thousands of books saved. I would like to be able to save them to an external HD if I can.
I also have an app called Comic Zeal. It's a digital comic book reader. I have approx. 40gb of comics saved here...but not on my HD. In File Sharing, my comics are stored in a blue folder (it's just there, I didn't make it) as one huge file. They import individually but then just automatically get absorbed into this blue folder icon that gets bigger or smaller as I add or delete comics from my mini. I can't save to an external HD as I get an error that I'm timed out. I would somehow like to salvage these as well.
Is there a way to back up an iTunes backup to an external HD to keep these internal files? When I looked in Finder to see the size of iTunes, it says 44gb. This doesn't seem right as the comics take up approx. 40gb on my mini & I have approx. 30gb more used for music, movies & apps.
I'm sure I've completely confused you guys & you're probably laughing, sneering, jeering, etc at me for playing in the deep end of the pool within knowing how to swim, but I'm drowning & I would greatly appreciate any lifelines you could throw me!!!1) I am just more capable with computer issues than a cave-dwelling Luddite so I will apologize in advance as I'm sure the problem is my fault & I am desperate.
2) I am the only account on my computer & I have admin privileges
3) I'm sorry if I ramble but I want to make sure I give enough info to tailor this question to my specific problem
In 2008, My MBP came with Snow Leopard. I'm almost positive I created my account with the account name & short name Chocolime. I have since changed the account name (the name I use for my HD icon & the name that appears next to my house icon) to Psychosquint. I am not computer savvy but I am OCD & have to click on all settings & preferences to see what I can do (this is my first Apple product). I obviously turned FileVault on.
I'm not sure when or why (even tho based on other posts, it's an encryption/decryption thing!?)...but I noticed that my HD was almost at full capacity (320gb) but all I use my computer for is web surfing & iTunes (max 100gb of media). I feel like I noticed this when I downloaded the Lion upgrade to my computer from the apple store. At some point I noticed in System Preferences, that now I have Legacy FV & FV. I turned FV on.
I started having to restart my computer anytime I deleted a significant amount of trash in order for my computer to show the correct space available (the amount shown when I right click my HD icon (the only icon on my screen) and select get info
I turned FV off, but was told I needed 245gb of space to turn off Legacy FV. I have to continually manage the media on my computer to have 10gb available for use, so Legacy FV is still on
Over the years, I notice that altho my user name is now Psychosquint, sometimes I would see a path file?! that always still had username chocolime (e.g. when shown where a file would download to. So I had the brilliant idea to fix this. I search this forum & found that I could go to System Preferences--Users, right click my name and change chocolime to psychosquint. I did that in both lines where chocolime was the name. I was prompted that changing this could mess up something if the name didn't match my home folder name or something, but I'm the only user & I checked that my folder was labelled psychosquint (all lowercase) & I clicked ok. I was told that I had to restart my computer to take effect & BLAMMO...now I can't log in
Started up in recovery mode. Reinstalled Lion, no change
Started up in recovery mode. Used Disk Utility to repair disk, got a green message that all was ok. Now am in the process of reinstalling Lion again (I know the definition of crazy is doing things over & over expecting different results )
So I would just find someone to wipe my computer & start from new as I don't have any programs installed that couldn't be re-downloaded but.....wait for it....here's my second conundrum:
I have an app call Quickreader. Within iTunes, when my ipad mini is plugged in so the apps tab is available, of you scroll down...this app shows up in File Sharing (I think that's the name). It's the place where you can add files. I've got thousands of books saved. I would like to be able to save them to an external HD if I can.
I also have an app called Comic Zeal. It's a digital comic book reader. I have approx. 40gb of comics saved here...but not on my HD. In File Sharing, my comics are stored in a blue folder (it's just there, I didn't make it) as one huge file. They import individually but then just automatically get absorbed into this blue folder icon that gets bigger or smaller as I add or delete comics from my mini. I can't save to an external HD as I get an error that I'm timed out. I would somehow like to salvage these as well.
Is there a way to back up an iTunes backup to an external HD to keep these internal files? When I looked in Finder to see the size of iTunes, it says 44gb. This doesn't seem right as the comics take up approx. 40gb on my mini & I have approx. 30gb more used for music, movies & apps.
I'm sure I've completely confused you guys & you're probably laughing, sneering, jeering, etc at me for playing in the deep end of the pool within knowing how to swim, but I'm drowning & I would greatly appreciate any lifelines you could throw me!!! -
How to log into Mountain Lion if the FileVault user can't unlock the drive?
I have a computer that has the FileVault user not able to decrypt the drive. I've read on how to get into the machine and have successfully done so a few times. This has been accomplished by creating a new Admin user, deleting the original user, recreating it as a clean new user. Each time I give the computer back to the owner and he tries to restore from a backup. The problem is, he restores and it creates the same problem.
The most recent time he did this, I could not for the life of me figure out how to create a new user. When I try to log in as the FileVault user I get the "unable to log into filevault user account at this time" error.
The only way I could figure out how to get another admin user created so that I could delete his user was to reinstall the OS. Is that the only way this can be done?I don't think Verizon will release the username and password to the camera administration to prevent people from doing what you want to do.
Even if you have the username / password, I would imagine there is a hefty equipment charge if you don't return the camera, which will make it cheaper to just buy a camera in retail stores. -
Hi all,
My computer had been running really slowly for a while, so I decided to erase the whole hard drive and reinstall the operating system, and then I was going to restore the files I cared about from Time Machine. The main account, which had all my documents and photos, was FileVault-protected. The last thing I did before erasing the hard drive was to run one last Time Machine backup. As far as I remember, I always ran Time Machine backups with the FileVaulted user logged in.
I don't remember whether I was using FileVault 1 or 2. I had been using FileVault 1, but I installed Lion as soon as it came out and I thought I had migrated to FileVault 2 at that point.
Once I erased the hard drive and reinstalled the operating system, I browsed the Time Machine disk and, within the Users folder, there was no folder for the main user account. When I tried to reinstall everything by restoring from Time Machine backup, I'd get the option for all the user accounts, but when I tried to log in with the main one I'd get the dreaded "You are unable to log in to the FileVault user account "User" at this time. Log in failed because an error occurred." Finally, when attempting to restore from the Time Machine backup again, I noticed something strange: After the computer got to about 10% done restoring, it declared itself completed successfully and rebooted.
I've tried a number of tips that came up from questions about similar issues on the Apple support forum, but had no luck. Is there any way to get these files back? Did they ever even get backed up?
Thanks.Hroodbwai wrote:
I can't find it! not sure what's going on but the only folder shown is the " Shared" folder.
Did you have only the one user account? If there were others, they should also be in the "Users" folder. You probably won't have access to the files inside them, but they should be there.
From what can make out, it looks like it's not backed up any of the files for the filevault account. Can't see user folder when looking through previous backups in Time Machine galaxy view.
Are you doing that from a Finder window set to your internal HD, or your computer name? It should look something like this (with the Finder in List view):
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I'd been logging out and backing up manually on a regular basis.
Scheduled backups should run normally; but they won't back up the File Vault sparse bundle, nor will any run manually.
The only time it's backed-up is when you actually log out.
You should have seen this window on logout:
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followed by this one:
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If you didn't see the second one, or cancelled it, the account wasn't backed-up. -
Here is the etrecheck report. Any suggestions of some other maintenance I can perform on my computer? A mac tech did a system diagnostic and found nothing wrong with the hardware. I have already reinstalled Mavericks, so it seems like the next step is wiping the harddrive clean and starting over, but I want to avoid that if possible! Can anybody help?
EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
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MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
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Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
Color LCD 1280 x 800
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OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 0:28:34
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APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (346.45 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
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Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
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Mac App Store and identified developers
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[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
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[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
User Login Items: ?
iTunesHelper
Internet Plug-ins: ?
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.176 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.176 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
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Searchme
Amazon Shopping Assistant
Ebay Shopping Assistant
SlickSavings
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BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
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Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
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Flash Player Support
Tuxera NTFS Support
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Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 464.96 GB Disk used: 142.30 GB
Destinations:
TOURO Mobile 3.0 [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 931.19 GB
Total number of backups: 2
Oldest backup: 2014-08-04 21:26:13 +0000
Last backup: 2014-08-14 23:31:16 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 931.19 GB > (Disk used 142.30 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
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4% SGProtocolService
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0% WindowServer
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106 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
66 MB Finder
41 MB mds_stores
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0 B Page-outs1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
Don't be put off merely by the seeming complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can read it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.
☞ Paste into the window of another application.
☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.
☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.
5. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
8. Launch the built-in 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 icon grid.
Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste by pressing command-V. The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press the return key.
9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter
exec bash
and press return. Then paste the script again.
10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
[Process completed]
to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report what happened. No harm will be done.
12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
Copyright © 2014 by Linc Davis. As the sole author of this work, I reserve all rights to it except as provided in the Use Agreement for the Apple Support Communities website ("ASC"). Readers of ASC may copy it for their own personal use. Neither the whole nor any part may be redistributed. -
FileVault Bug, requires you to log in twice.
So I'm sitting here and wondering.... am I the ONLY person who is using FileVault in the new Lion? or am I the only one who's having these problems, but here's the scenario. Last week I purchased a brand new 2011 Macbook Air with the i7 Processor, and 256GB SSD drive... All excited, bring it home and start to set it up for work, and then all of a sudden it starts acting strange.
Symptoms:
Upon initial boot up, or system restart, you are presented with the login screen, but after you enter in your password and hit enter, it just sits there for a while spinning the wheel, and then just out of the blue decides it wants to reboot all by itself, comes back up and then presents you with the login page again. At which time the second time, and ONLY the second time, it accepts your login, and presents you with your desktop, and everything runs fine from them on.
When this started happening the first time, I was completely lost and tried every troubleshooting step in the books to try to figure it out. I disabled all startup items in the user profile thinking that might have something to do with it. Nope, no luck. I tried the Comand + alt + P + R key stroke to clear out the system, Nope, no luck.
I went out and paid $69 for a USB Key with Lion on it so that I could reinstall the OS without having to wait 3 hours for it to download, which is funny considering I'm supposed to already be licensed for it with the Macbook Air, but thats another gripe for another post. Then I begin installing one thing at a time and rebooting to find out what may have caused the problem.
I finished installing all of the apps I need, and everything was still running right, and then I was like cool, it must have just been a glitch, and I enabled FileVault, rebooted the comuter, it came up fine and then after it was done encrypting I installed eset cybersecurity for Mac. I know I know, Mac's don't need virus scanners, but its required for my job, and I really don't have a choice, that and the disk encryption.
So once the virus scanner was installed, I began copying my personal files and documents from my external drive to the Macbook Air, and decided to do another reboot just in case, and low and behold, the problem was back... Enter password the first time, and the system reboots, but the second time it lets you log in.
At this point I'm pretty pieved, so I take the Macbook Air back and buy a 13" Macbook pro with the i7 processor, 8GB of memory, and 500GB standard hard drive. Well to cut a long story short, I had the same problems with this system, until I finally found out that the reason why all of this was happening was because:
A. I had FileVault enabled
B. I had copied files to the device that were previously on another Mac device.
I have no idea why it does it, but it appears as though when you enable FileVault, you're fine as long as you dont copy anything from an old computer onto it, because when you do all of a suddedn you're presented with the problem. Oh and if FileVault isnt enabled, you dont have the problem either. Ever.
So there is a bug in FileVault which is by itself not that big of a deal and not a very bad bug... heck all it seems to affect is your ability to login the first time, or at least thats all I've found, but what on earth happened with Apple. Ever since Jobs has taken his leave of absence everything has been going downhill.
Apple's HUGE advantage over Microsoft and every other operating system has always been that with apple, everything JUST WORKS. But unfortunately, I have to say that Lion has been the biggest piece of junk released by Apple in a LONG time. It has more bugs with it than you can shake 10,000 sticks at, and the more I use Lion, the more I find problems with it. What the **** is going on? With Winblows, I had to deal with little issues all the freaking time, like every single day. You'd have the wonkiest of things happening like you install a new app and when you reboot your desktop is all messed up, and when you wake the computer up from sleep, you cant login, or stupid things like that. So I ALWAYS found refuge in my Mac, and I always used to say well I don't have to worry about that.
Now with Lion... I have all the same problems a Winblows machine does. When I open the lid, I have to wonder if its actually going to wake up, or just provide me with a blank screen and force me to do a hard reboot. Or if I launch Safari, and it just doesn't want to open up the home page, or the fact that in the middle of transfering a file, or streaming music, all of a sudden my wireless link drops, but it doesn't actually tell you that you have no wireless link, and yes, it STILL happens even after the 10.7.1 update, even though that was supposed to have addressed this issue specifically.
I hate to say this, but Microsoft must have a fairy godmother or something, because they are **** lucky Steve Jobs resigned as CEO, because he seems to be the ONLY one at Apple who had the required attention to detail that seperated them from everyone else, and I'm scared that Apple is going to be yet another company now that releases products with buggs in it, and oh well, you just have to accept that as a part of life. I DONT want Apple to be the first with everything. I could care less if I have to wait for a new technology to be incorporated into the OS. I don't want them to be the first with a new interface like lion, or to combine OS X and IOS into a single cohesive echosystem. I just want them to be the BEST. I will wait an extra 6 months if I know its going to be the best way to do it, and that its not going to be riddled with bugs because they're rushing to get it out.
I'm VERY dissapointed Apple.... Because if this continues, I won't be an Apple user anymore, beacuse it will be cheaper to buy a PC, so what if it has bugs, so does Lion, so I may as well save my money.Are you using Parallels Desktop 7?
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=113543 -
FileVault 2 bootup login gets weird after crash
I have had FileVault 2 encryption enabled on my laptop for almost a year. It's worked well and I've never had trouble... until yesterday.
My computer froze while I was saving something in Photoshop and had various other apps open. Nothing unusual. This happens once in awhile so I wasn't troubled by it. I have a TechTool Pro (TTP) emergency boot partition installed, so I booted off of that and ran Disk Utility and TTP to check the encrypted disk. Of course, I had to enter the disk's password just to mount it on the desktop. Disk Utility said the disk was fine other than a few permission issues. I rebuilt the volume directory in TTP, as I usually do after a crash just for precaution, and it didn't report any negative or unusual issues. Then I restarted back to my main partition.
Instead of the usual encryption login screen appearing, I got this:
I added a white box over the login name that was under the icon; it was my username printed there.
This looks like a weird combination login screen of the encryption login and the usual non-encryption login. But I couldn't do anything. I could move the mouse around, but I couldn't click on anything. There was nowhere to type a password. Finally I tried typing the password anyway, and the screen changed to this:
Again, I've whiteboxed the username and now a snippet of other text: my password hint. But you can see around the password hint are rows and rows of colored noise. It didn't change at all -- e.g. it was not video noise -- though if I clicked or pressed a key, it would go away, and then come back with another keypress. This was really confusing. I had just accessed this disk a few minutes earlier! And I'd checked it by booting via another partition, with no problems.
On another computer, I googled possible issues and looked through the Apple support resources. I didn't see any situations quite like this, but I did get the idea to check the encryption. I booted the troubled laptop into Recovery Mode (command-R) and turned off encryption via Disk Utility. After that, the computer booted directly to the usual non-encryption login screen without problems, and worked fine. It took about 3 hours for the system to finish decrypting itself (per the Security preference status) but there were no problems.
After it decrypted, I ran all my disk utilities again (no problems found!) and tried enabling FileVault 2 again. When you enable it, you have to restart. I did that, and... it gave me the same login weirdness described above. EXACTLY the same. So I booted back into recovery mode and disabled encryption again, and everything is working fine (other than not being encrypted as I want).
Does anyone have suggestions for what is going wrong with FileVault 2? Is there a config or preference file somewhere that I can delete or edit? A flag that needs to be set via command line? A disk driver that can be reinstalled without wiping the disk? I do not relish the idea of reformatting the drive and restoring it via Time Machine backups, though I would consider it as a last resort.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.Update:
On a hunch that the problem was somehow with a configuration related to the login screen, I went into the Users & Groups preferences, under Login Options, and turned off everything. I set the login window display to "Name and password" instead of "List of users". Then I went back to the FileVault preferences and turned it back on. I followed the steps and restarted the computer.
It rebooted and spun on a grey screen for awhile.
Then it rebooted again, right back to the non-encrypted login.
I logged in and checked the FileVault preferences. It indicated that encryption was off, even though I had just turned it on. Odd. So I turned it on again, restarted, etc. THIS TIME, it booted correctly to the encryption login, with none of the weirdness of before, and FileVault's preferences indicated that it is in the process of encrypting.
I'll keep an eye on this for a day or two. If it seems resolved, I'll mark this resolved. -
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