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I turned on filevault about 2 1/2 hours ago. It vaulted my Home folder in about 36 minutes and then proceeded to erase my original Home Folder. After waiting for an hour and 30 mins, i figured it was locked up. I hit the cancel button and it gave me an option to continue or to stop file vault. I hit continue and the bar went from the barber shop bar to a full bar saying that 5 seconds was reamining. After 1/2 hour, I figured it was totally jacked so i hit cancel again and stopped the process. Now it's stuck saying cancel and is giving me the barber shop bar. What should I do?

How did this turn out? I (foolishly) find myself having activated FileVault with secure erase, and after completing the encryption in about an hour, it has been stuck at "Deleting old Home folder" for more than an hour, with the barber pole showing. Any good news for me?

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