Legacy FileVault

I'd like to transition to the new Lion FileVault, but I'm getting the following error:
"There isn't enough space on your hard disk to turn off Legacy FileVault."
Any work-around ideas? Get a bigger HD? Copy to a bigger external HD, make the transition, then copy back?

Move at least that much data from your home folder to another storage device. Make the conversion, then move the data back.

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How do i retrieve my legacy filevaulted user?

So, here's what happened. I have an early 2008 black macbook. it was running lion. Then, last saturday, I had to force it to turn off and, after that, I wasn't being able to sign into my account again. It entered an infinite loop. I tried everything, but i ended up formatting my macbook hd and performed a clean install of lion. I had it all backed up with time machine on an external hard drive, so i didn't worry much. The problem is, my account was encrypted with legacy filevault. After the fresh intall of lion, i finally got my macbook to work again, but now i can't restore the files from my previous account. I have no other macs and i can't find any sparsebundle files on my time machine backup. What can I do to restore the files from my legacy filevaulted account on my external hard drive? I know the files are there because when i open migration assitant, the user appears, but it can't be transfered because a message appear saying filevaulted users are not transferable. Please help. I have a lot of files from two years of university, and i can't lose them.

Your Apple ID is your e-mail address.

Apple Legacy Filevault Hole

Can someone let us know when we can expect an update to fix this security hole in Lion 10.7.3
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 20:40:07 -0400
From: "David I. Emery" <die[at]dieconsulting.com>
To: cryptography[at]randombit.net
Subject: [cryptography] Apple Legacy filevault barn door...
http://cryptome.org/2012/05/apple-filevault-hole.htm
Regards
Rudolf

There are workarounds to prevent this from happening, and it should not affect anyone who has made use of the latest technologies that Apple offers. Here's info on how to manage it for people using legacy FileVault: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57428767-263/how-to-manage-the-filevault-pa ssword-hole-in-os-x-10.7.3/

Need additional space to turn off legacy FileVault?

I have a 320GB HD but the finder says I have almost 500GB of data which is impossible. The about this mac tells me that I have 2GB free. I moved 100GB of items to the trash then emptied the trash and it still tells me I have 2GB free. I recently upgraded to lion and when I go to deactivate legacy filevault as I am guessing that is the issue it tells me I need additional space? How can I use an external HD to fix this issue? Can I just delete the sparsebundle that is 200GB?

Okay, I was under the impression that you had to deactivate any legacy/previous version of Filevault before you installed Lion. I don't believe that the two versions are in anyway compatible.
Do you have a backup of your prior SL volume?

Can't turn off Legacy Filevault

I have an iMac with 2 "legacy" filevault accounts from Snow Leopard.
I turned off legacy filevault on one of the two accounts, but the second account, which is a portable home directory, always generates an error during the decryption process. I have tried repairing disk permissions, rebooting etc, nothing works.
Any and all suggestions are welcome!

- open the account (so that the Home is decrypted)
- make a copy of Home folder
- set a new temporary account (Admin)
- restart with this new temporary account
- remove the original Home folder, then remove the original account (via System Preferences - Users & Groups)
- rename the copy with the original name
- add a new account with the same original name via Users & Groups), that is recreated the deleted account
The system ask you if you want to use the existent Folder with the same - OK
At voila you have the account decrypted

Lion Legacy Filevault WHOOPS

The following describes a serious Lion security flaw & asks how to make Apple aware of it...
When Lion mounts a legacy FileVault sparse bundle at user login, the system logs the following to /var/log/secure.log (hostname and actual password changed for security reasons):
Apr 11 19:39:35 hostname authorizationhost[1240]: DEBUGLOG | -[HomeDirMounter mountEncryptedHomeWithURL:attributes:dirPath:username:] | about to call DIHLFVMount. urlAttribute = /Users/.username/username.sparsebundle, password = password-here-in-plain-text, mountPointParent = /Users, homeDirPath going to the DIHLFVMount call = /Users/username
Lion should not be writing the username and password to disk! This is a serious security problem that renders an encrypted legacy FileVault useless because it makes the password available to anyone that can read the secure.log file.
How does one write a problem ticket to Apple to make them aware of this?

This is really severe!
I have removed the file and pointed symlink to null device - this prevents writing anything to the file (at the cost of losing other security related information from this log file).
In case anybody wanted to do the same here's what you need to paste to the Terminal.app:
f=/var/log/secure.log && sudo rm $f && sudo ln -s /dev/null $f
and type your password.
(not sure, but sudo only works if you have password set and you're on an admin account)

HT4790 Legacy FileVault won't turn off

To use Time Machine, I need to turn off Legacy FileVault. When I try to turn off Legacy FileVault, I get a message telling me I need 51.7GB to turn it off. I have a 2GB computer so this message makes no sense (and I double checked it does tell me 52GB).

Temporarily copy most or all of the files from your home folder to an external drive. Delete the originals. Log out and log back in. You should then be able to deactivate legacy FV and copy the files back.

Problem turning off legacy filevault.

Hey everyone,
I began the process of switching over to the new filevault, but have encountered a problem turning off the legacy vault. Everything seemed to be goin well, at first. It took about 30 minutes for copying to complete during decryption. However, it has been hung up at "copying is complete..." for nearly 12 hours now and is showing no signs of moving on. I have received no errors. What can I do to maybe kick start the process again or should I just do a forced shutdown. Any help here would be greatly appreciated because at this point I honestly don't know if I have any other option than a forced shutdown.
Thanks

Ok, so I'm answering my own question here but it worked. I ended up doing a forced shutdown (holding down the power button until shut down initializes) from the screen indicating that "copying is complete..." When I restarted (manual restart using the power button again) the legacy vault was off and the new file vault was on and working properly. No data or settings were lost and everything was working properly.
Thank you to all of you who took the time to look at my initial question even if you didn't have an answer for it.

I restored my Macbook Pro and now I can't log in as Admin - it says there is an error with FileVault and I don't have access - plz help! thank you.

I had to restore my Macbook Pro from Time Capsule yesterday and now when I go to log in as my usual Admin, it says there is a FileVault error and my access is denied. I created another temporary Admin acct, but everything I had on my desktop, etc is "gone" I can look up the "drive' or wahtever it's called, but I can't access any of it. All I want to do is log back in as my usual self (the regular Admin) - plz help! Thanks. p.s. I"m (obviously) not that computer savvy!

Triple-click the line below to select it:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app
Rght-click or control-click the highlighted text and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* The application Directory Utility will open.
In the Directory Utility window, click the lock icon and authenticate. Select the Directory Editor tool in the toolbar. Select Users from the Viewing menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Select the affected user account in the list. On the right is a list of properties and values. Select the property "HomeDirectory" and delete it by clicking the minus-sign icon directly below the property list. There are two such icons in the window. You want the one on the right, not the one on the left.
CAUTION: Do not click the minus-sign icon on the left, below the user list.
Then click the Save button in the lower right corner of the window. Quit Directory Utility.
CAUTION: There is no "undo" in Directory Utility. If you make a mistake and delete something in the Directory Editor that should not have been deleted, restore your whole system from a backup and start over. I have no other help to offer in that case.
Try again to log in as the affected user. If you can log in, you should find a file in the home folder with the name of the user and the filename extension "sparseimage" or "sparsebundle". Double-click that file. A disk image should open. Copy your files from that disk image to restore them.
I strongly suggest that you deactivate legacy FileVault in the Security & Privacy preference pane, then log out and log back in. Consider activating FileVault 2 if you want that kind of security.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

Can't see files while updating to FileVault 2?

Hi,
I have an older version of the Macbook Pro and have recently upgraded my system from Mavericks to Yosemite. Today I upgraded from Legacy FileVault to the newer FileVault, and I had followed all the instructions given by Apple. However, right now FileVault is encrypting my data and all of my files are hidden, when I'm supposed to be able to access them as usual. When I click on the user home tab in Finder, all my folders (Applications, Downloads, Music, etc.) have been replaced by "Library". This folder has nothing but a collection of codes. I can only access my documents by going to the "Users" folder in my hard drive, where everything is in a folder of copied information. Also, things such as touchpad settings and my background have been reset. I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen, since it didn't happen when I tried it on a friend's Macbook. I'm worried that my computer won't return back to normal and I won't be able to immediately access my documents in Finder even after FileVault has finished encrypting. Can someone please explain this?

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Safe to disable legacy file vault in Mountain Lion?

Have an iMac with Mountain Lion installed and everytime it's logged off or rebooted it hangs at a File Vault backup screen. I did some research and found File Vault will only backup home folder when logged off or while rebooting. Since the home folder is huge it's probably just taking its time.
When I went into security preferences an alert popped up saying it was using Legacy FileVault. Is it OK to disable this?
Also, is the home folder not being backed up by TimeMachine during normal backups since it's FileVault?
Any suggestions or guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks a lot for your suggestion to report with Apple. In fact, this would be so easy to enable or disable it globaky from the system preferences, and or make it available from within the application preferences. In that way, each of us would be able to manage witch app is doing what.
If this is it, maybe we could ask Apple to give us some more room to manage our files.
Thank again.
Regards.

Missing User settings and files after disabling Filevault on Lion

I just installed OS X Lion on my mac and everything worked fine until I disabled the legacy filevault on my system. When the machine rebooted it had wipped out all my settings and files it would seem. After a bit of searching i found my files in the /Users directory. However the files are placed inside a folder called myusername.fvCopy. If I change any settings in my account like removing apps from the dock and reboot the changes haven't taken effect when it boots back up.
I have no idea what to do about this.
Any help is much apprciated.
Thanks in advance
/Kristian

I fixed it by logging in to a different account and deleteting the broken homefolder via the terminal and renaming the myusername.fvCopy to myusername.

Legacy file vault - new machine.

This will probably be a stupid question - please bear with me - 59 year old, largely self taught regarding tech stuff.
I have a 2007 macbook pro with legacy filevault enabled. I realised after I had installed Lion that there was a new version of filevault, but when I attempted to move to the new filevault I was unable to get rid of the legacy version as the process seems to demand more disc space than was available, so I have just left things as they were.
I have now bitten the bullett and have bought a new Macbook Air, which will still be running Lion.
My question is ...when I move my stuff from my old to my new laptop, with migration assistant, will the legacy filevault move too, or is it specific to the old machine?
The question itself probably reveals my basic lack of understanding, so be gentle with me!

When you migrate your data Lion will ask you if you want to keep legacy filevault or turn it off. If you choose to turn it off, you may have the same issue with your new MBA - not enough diskspace - and be unable to.
If the MBA has got enough diskspace, no problem.
Both Lion and Mountain Lion will run with legacy filevault enabled. Who knows about what comes after that.
You could try turning it off by cloning the disk to a larger external disk drive, booting off that drive, turning FV off, then cloning the un-turned off external drive back to the internal.
For cloning, use the free utility Carbon Copy Cloner.

How can I turn off legacy file vault when it needs additional 170 GB free on a HD that is only 250 GB?

I am trying to migrate to a new Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.3) and I cannot migrate files over from my prior Macbook Pro (OSX 10.7.5) because of legacy file vault being on. When I try to turn off Legacy Filevault on old computer, it says I need to free up 170 GB of HD space. I only have a 250 GB HD to begin with! I don't see how I can possibly free up that much space. I need help!

Use a external storage drive and copy all your users files there, then Trash > Empty Trash the originals, then reboot and try Filevault again.
Most commonly used backup methods
Note that any +4GB sized files will not transfer to a FAT32/MSDOS external drive many are formatted too.
You first need to change the format of the drive and in doing so, will erase all data on it.
Drives, partitions, formatting w/Mac's + PC's

How long does FileVault take to encrypt or decrypt?

I have been having difficulty with my iMac (2009) and in going thru each setting, it said that there was a newer version of FileVault so I clicked on the button that said do not use Legacy FileVault. Now my screen is all white with the little wheel going round and round. It has been that way since 10 am this morning. It is now 8:30 pm. All I few ant to know is if I can turn the computer off and go back to the way it was without messing up data etc.. Anybody have the answer?

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FileVault encrypts your files when OS X is turned on. This means that your computer isn't encrypting files now, so you can turn off your iMac and turn it on again. The upgrade to FileVault 2 will start the next time you start up

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