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Here is the problem from the beginning.
Apple had a recall on my HD so I proceeded to archive the entire drive using Time Machine to my external 2TB drive. I then erased the drive that was going back to Apple.
After receiving the computer I proceeded to re install the backup using the external drive via USB and starting the mac in recovery mode. It gives me the option to recover using Time Machine at which point I am faced with a password to unlock the external drive. The drive will not mount until it is unlocked.
The problem is that my Mac had automatically been putting in the password for the drive for years and I had never moved it to another computer so I didn't even know there was a password on it. Now my external drive isn't getting the password from my Mac as it has a new HD and so it doesn't exist. The disk was encrypted using Disk Utility MAC OS extended encrypted.
I contacted a mac specialist today and he said I am out of luck without the password. I accept that this is my own fault however I need to know how many attempts I have at cracking my own password before I accidentaly brick the HD.
For testing purposes I formated a thumb drive the same as my external drive only this time I know the password. I then procedded to plug in 20 false passwords and then the real one. Everything worked fine, then I tried 25 false attempts at which point the thumd drive wouldn`t accept the real password. At this point the thumb drive will not accept a password and is bricked. I tried it on diferent computers with no luck.
Is there an actual number of attempts at entering a password to un-encypt a drive. I am willing to plug in passwords for a week if I need to but not if I have already bricked the HD and have no idea that I have.
Thanks

It has been two days since locking myself out of the thumbdrive and it still hasen't reset (I enter the correct password and it turns grey and shakes). I have a hint for the password on the HD so I do have a slim chance but not if it's not accepting the password.

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