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How do I encrypt all of my external drives?
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Love my Lion! I call him Simba...

Well - it seems as if I "should" be able to do this, however, I may not have the skills or the nerves. I'm extremely happy with how the Encryption code in Lion worked seemlessly and flawlessly and I now have a full, encrypted main drive. My quest has been to encrypt all eight of my drives (seven external) - and frankly, I don't feel qualified enough to even follow those directions in the article. I tried the following in termanal:
/dev/disk2
and received this response
Permission denied
Which pretty well tells me I'd be in over my head! For grins, I checked ownership and permissions on my Drive 2 and I'm listed as an okee dokie kinda guy, but Apple - well Apple can "tell your level of geekness" - of this I'm sure of!
You've been very help ful - and I appreciate it. FYI: On Saturday, I was able to locate an article on Fire Vault 2, and a description. Both are now gone from the Apple site. Initially, the description DID describe an encryption process for all your drives. Then there was something called "Wipe" (I think that's what it was called) that in an emergency, allowed for an easy wipe of all files - permanently. Nothing about that is up there any more. I wonder if Apple has received more questions about this and realized maybe they needed to re-do their description and capabilities? It seems now that "encryption" is only mentioned in "Disk Utility". Hmmm!
Bob

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