Upgraded to Yosemite, File Vault locked me out, help!

I decided to upgrade to Yosemite, and after the installation something happened somehow, and file vault lost the password for my account making it impossible for me to log in. I have tried to restore from my time machine back ups but the issue remains no matter the date of my backup. I have also tried to wipe the drive and start over hoping to manually restore everything bit by bit from time machine, but it seems as though the drive is encrypted and I cannot access any files other than the system files??
help please!!

Filevault can't have lost your account password it is a system for encrypting the data on your hard drive to prevent people from accessing it without the password. If anything went wrong in that process you cannot break the encryption on that in any easy fashion. Call AppleCare for further assistance since its a new OS you will not be charged for assistance. I had the same problem last year, I enabled filevault and lost my recovery key after a move, luckily I chose to send a copy to Apple during its setup and they could get me sorted out. Good Luck.

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Ok I'm not entirely sure how file vault works or even what it's exact purpose is! All I know is that is seems to free up some space on my hard drive!
My problem is that my file vault doesn't seem to be working anymore. I've checked to make sure that it's turned on but after that I'm lost.
I'm running Leopard (latest version), but using Time Capsule or anything like that.
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Shane,
Why would you mess with a feature without understanding what it's for? Filevault is a form of disk encryption. It protects your home folder by encrypting and decrypting the contents on the fly, as your computer needs it.
It does not "free up disk space." And if FileVault is on in system preferences, then it's working. It runs in the background, so you shouldn't see any indication that it's running as you use your computer. It should simply prompt you for a password at login, and after that, it just works.
Be forewarned: if you forget your password, your data will be unrecoverable. Be careful with FileVault.

Tried to Upgrade to Yosemite - Mac Got Locked! - HELP!!!

Today I tried to upgrade my late 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina from Mavericks to Yosemite. After launching the installation, the computer restarted and within 30 seconds it displayed a screen asking for a four-character password and the following message "Enter your system lock PIN code to unlock this Mac."! I cannot bypass this screen and I have no clue what this password might bemas I never set one.
I called Apple Canada and was with them for four hours on the phone. No result other than the fact that my computer appears to be iCloud locked. I only remember experimenting and trying to lock it once through my iClold account 6-8 months ago and the procedure had no effect on the Mac at that time (although it locked my iPnone and iPad). The Apple guy thinks that that the very old command might have activated now. But how do I unlock it my computer now?
On the phone, Apple advised me to go to an Apple Store to see the Genius Bar. But the earliest appointments are available on Wednesday next week and Saturday I need to fly to the UK on business for a week and all my work files and presentations I need to make are on the locked computer.
What has Apple done to my computer? How could they lock me like this out of my data? Please let me know what do I have to do to recover access to my computer and data as soon as possible?
Many thanks.

I did the same thing, I realised what I did wrong after it was too late and ended up with the 'white no entry sign' on the black screen.
I did manage to sort it, but because the solution happened so fast, I can't recall the exact details, but here is a general guide: Please read all of this before following the sequence I went through.
After much messing around searching the net on another machine and getting nowhere I decided to do a re-install the system. I started the Mac holding down Command-R. I then opted to re-install the software thinking that I was going to lose everything. I clicked on the Install button and it would not let me re-install the system because the drive was locked. This turned out to be an amazing stroke of luck.
I then went to Time Machine out of curiosity more than anything else, and this is where I can't remember exactly what happened. I think I went to see if there were any backup, knowing there was not! but it gave me the option to 'unlock' the drive. I did this, immediately shutdown and re-started and I was then able to get back in as normal. I then went straight into Filevault and made sure that it was switched off.
I hope that helps.

Yosemite file Vault caused login issue

Today i tried to login with new MAC, Normally,we can login with our AD account, today i just found no network user, only admin account.
Finally, the issue caused by FileVault
Click Turn On FileVault.If your Mac has multiple users, a list of users appears. You can allow users to log in after the Mac starts up. If you don’t, an administrator must log in before the user does.
OS X Yosemite: Encrypt the contents of your Mac with FileVault

Filevault can't have lost your account password it is a system for encrypting the data on your hard drive to prevent people from accessing it without the password. If anything went wrong in that process you cannot break the encryption on that in any easy fashion. Call AppleCare for further assistance since its a new OS you will not be charged for assistance. I had the same problem last year, I enabled filevault and lost my recovery key after a move, luckily I chose to send a copy to Apple during its setup and they could get me sorted out. Good Luck.

Upgraded to Yosemite and MBP running slow. Help!

The EtreCheck is below. Computer ran great before the upgrade... Not sure what to do.
EtreCheck version: 2.2 (132)
Report generated 4/27/15, 8:46 PM
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
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            2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
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When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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HT204053 I changed my ID and now it's locked me out HELP!

I changed my apple account because of a closing email account and now when I go into my iPad settings and click on the iCloud it won't let me back anything up because it doesnt recognize my new account email or password

Welcome to the Apple Community.
In order to change your Apple ID or password for your iCloud account on your iOS device, you need to delete the account from your iOS device first, then add it back using your updated details. (Settings > iCloud, scroll down and hit "Delete Account")
When you delete your account, all the data that is synced with iCloud will also be deleted from the device (but not from iCloud), but will be synced back to your device when you login again.

Upgraded to Yosemite 10.10 now magnetic tool does not work in photoshop CS6 also using intuos 5 tablet.

The lasso tools worked great before i upgraded to Yosemite.. Some one please help.

I have the same problems. There are not answers anywhere.

Locked out with file vault. Did fix by setting up new user account but cannot access old account with files but I can't get back into my old account with all my doc's and pics

I was locked out by File Vault. I set up a new account by fooling the notebook it was a new start up. Now I cannot access my old account with all of my files. I can see it in Accounts but it will not let me access. Help

I managed to get a few Time Machine Back Ups before I passed away
I'm not sure whether a ghost can do this, but if you were still alive, you could do as follows.
First make sure you have read & write access to the folder you're trying to restore to. You should be able to see its contents in the Finder, and to move files in and out of it.
This is an exception to the rule that you should never make any changes to backup data. I've tested this procedure in OS X 10.8 only. It should work with later versions, but I don't know whether it works in earlier versions. Use it only for files that were backed up from your home folder, or a folder on another volume created by you, and would normally be writable by you. Do not touch backups of system or application files.
In the Finder (not in the time-travel view), navigate to the backup volume, then to the folder named "Backups.backupdb", and then to the snapshot you want to restore from. The snapshots are folders labeled with the date when they were created. Inside each of those folders is a file hierarchy like the one on the volume that was backed up. Descend through the hierarchy until you come to a folder named "Users," and inside that, a folder with your user name. The procedure will be different if you're trying to restore files on another volume.
Select the folder and open the Info dialog (command-I). Click the padlock icon in the lower right corner of the window and authenticate. In the Sharing & Permissions section, give your account Read & Write access. You may have to close the dialog and repeat this step in order for the change to show up. Then click the gear icon and select
Apply to Enclosed Items
from the popup menu.
Try the restore operation again, in the time-travel interface.

File Vault stalled/failed after Yosemite upgrade

Since upgrade to Yosemite and choosing to use FileVault which has been 10 days now, FileVault keeps saying estimating time remaining. I have run diskutil cs list multiple times and sometimes it says 80% complete and other times it says failed. I've also run EtreCheck multiple times and sometimes it says converting and other times it says failed. System running slow or low on memory since upgrade also. I have a MacBook Pro 15" early 2011, 2 GHz Intel Cor i7, 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 and here is my last EtreCheck report.
EtreCheck version: 2.0.6 (91)
Report generated October 26, 2014 at 9:10:36 PM PDT
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
1 2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
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Color LCD 1440 x 900
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 0:56:46
Disk Information: ℹ️
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Encrypted AES-XTS UnlockedConverting
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Same problem here, except my computer is running slow also. I have tried disk repair, it says everything is OK, but still runs slow. Filevault is stuck at around 80% encrypting my HD and as a result I cannot turn it off. I am not sure exactly what caused this problem, can anyone help?

Since upgrading to Yosemite, my file folders and applications icons keep disappearing and I have to restart my mac to get them back. Any remedies out there?

Any remedy for disappearing file folder and applications icons since upgrading to Yosemite?

@Steve_Clairman, if you are looking for the orange Firefox button (abbreviated menus), it will appear if you turn off the classic menu bar:
View menu > Toolbars > ''uncheck'' Menu Bar

TS1394 My pictures file is locked. Don't have permission to access iPhoto library after Yosemite upgrade. How do I dump the new Pictures file and restore the old?

Just upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.1 iPhoto gives me a permissions error when I try to access the photo library. When I track down the "Pictures" folders, the new "blessed" Pictures folder (with camera on the folder) is empty. The previous Pictures folder, now a generic folder named "Pictures" is found at MacHD>Users>Guest, with a no access red circle/white bar in the lower right corner. Get info tells me that "Guest" has read/write privileges, but not me, logged on with administrator password. Logging in as "Guest" does no good, the folder is no longer findable. Disk Utility Permissions repair and restart, both as Guest and with the administrator password are fruitless. I cannot alter the locked Pictures folder. Will moving the "blessed" pictures folder to the trash and restarting possibly fix this? If not, then how? Thanks.

Try holding alt or option key when starting iPhoto to choose a new Library.

Locked out of user after turning off file vault

I was told i had permission issues. I couldn't do simple things like copying files to desktop. Someone told me to turn off file vault. Did it. Now i can't access user at all. Keep getting same message,"...cannot access user at this time..." accompanied by an applications icon. All i really want from that user are my music and photos. Please help, my wife is going to kill me if i lose baby photos.

An update that may help you: I went to my Backups (created in Tiger before I switched) and restored some things from there. Unfortunately it wouldn't give me back everything (iPhoto Library all gone), but I did restore an older iTunes Library and some of my e-mails.
Were you using Backup before you lost everything?

Preview opening invisible files and freezing since upgrade to yosemite

I "upgraded" to yosemite and now preview more or less doesn't function. It started when I tried to open a locked document (which I had locked using adobe cs6 or cs5 I can't remember. Adobe can open it just fine (one page at a time) but preview can no longer open it. It'll open and then as soon as I scroll one page up the document freezes. and from then on out when I hover over the buttons for any document I open or have open in preview the close, minimize and full screen button do not change their icons to let you know you are hovering over them, but they still work. I can still minimize and close thing.
Additionally, when I go to open any more, they open up a blank/see through window. I can see a slightly opaque box where the file should be but there is nothing there. And I can minimize this box of nothing, and close the box of nothing, but that's it. I have to quit preview and start/get stuck all over again.
I have an early 2013 macbook pro with a dual core i7, 8 GB of ram
Lastly, as a side note, that sound the reminders makes is awful.. It sounds like my computer has gas... *facepalm*

I have similar problems. I used to be able to double click an item, such as a photo or Microsoft Word document, and have it open easily using Mavericks but Yosemite doesn't seem to work. I've tried changing the open with settings for .jpgs, etc. for each app but Yosemite changes all files to the same setting regardless of whether it's a Word document or a photo from Adobe. Running a MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 and 4 GB memory.

Frustratingly, since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10, I too am having the worst problems with WiFi dropping out. I've never had this problem before on my iMac 27-inch mid 2011 model. Turning WiFi off and then back on again sometimes works. Help please.

Frustratingly, since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10, I too am having the worst problems with WiFi dropping out. I've never had this problem before on my iMac 27-inch mid 2011 model. Turning WiFi off and then back on again sometimes works. Help please. I've already tried a lot of your suggested fixes, but without success. Why hasn't Apple Fixed this?

Please test after taking each of the following steps that you haven't already tried. Stop when the problem is resolved. Back up all data before making any changes.
Step 1
Take the applicable steps in this support article. The Wireless Diagnostics program generates a large file of information about your system, which would be used by Apple Engineering in case of a support incident. Don't post the contents here.
Step 2
Disconnect all USB 3 devices. If you don't know which are USB 3, disconnect all USB devices except keyboard and mouse.
Step 3
If you're not using a wireless keyboard or trackpad, disable Bluetooth by selecting Turn Bluetooth Off from the menu with the Bluetooth icon. If you don't have that menu, open the Bluetooth preference pane in System Preferences and check the box marked Show Bluetooth in menu bar. Test. If you find that Wi-Fi works better with Bluetooth disabled, you should use the 5 GHz Wi-Fi band. Your router may not support it; in that case, you need a new router.
Step 4
Open the Energy Saver pane in System Preferences and unlock the settings, if necessary. Select the Power Adapter tab, if there is one. Uncheck the box marked
Wake for Wi-Fi network access
if it's checked.
Step 5
Open the Network pane in System Preferences and make a note of your settings in the Wi-Fi service. It may be helpful to take screenshots of the various tabs in the preference pane. If the preference pane is locked, unlock it by clicking the padlock icon and entering your administrator password. Delete Wi-Fi from the service list on the left by selecting it and clicking the minus-sign button at the bottom. Then recreate the service by clicking the plus-sign button and following the prompts.
Step 6
In the Wi-Fi settings, select
Advanced... ▹ TCP/IP ▹ Configure IPv6: Link-local
Click OK and then Apply.
Step 7
Reset the System Management Controller.
Step 8
Reset the PRAM.
Step 9
Launch the Keychain Access application. Search for and delete all AirPort network password items that refer to the network. Make a note of the password first.
Step 10
Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service center.

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