What to keep in fire vault?

What should you keep in fire vault and, under Mountain Lion, does it affect the operation of Entourage?

Everything, and no.

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  • I turned off my fire vault by accident and is there a way to stop it from decrypting cause that is going to take a long time and i want to keep my hard drive encrypted

    I turned off my fire vault by accident and is there a way to stop it from decrypting cause that is going to take a long time and i want to keep my hard drive encrypted.
    is there a way to stop it in the middle so it does not go through the whole process

    It's called, "FileVault." If there is no option to stop the process, then the best bet would be to wait until decrypting is finished. Otherwise you run the risk of borking the whole thing. It's hard to imagine how you can accidentally turn off FileVault.

  • I am trying to stop encryption in fire vault, but I keep getting the message, The target disk isn't eligible for reversion because it wasn't created by conversion or it is not part of a simple setup of exactly one logical and one physical volume.¨

    I am trying to cease encryption in fire vault, Mac os x lion 10.7 4
    I keep getting the message,
    ¨The target disk isn’t eligible for reversion because it wasn’t created by conversion or it is not part of a simple setup of exactly one logical and one physical volume.¨
    Please can someone advise the way to disable?
    Thank you.

    Are you using Boot Camp? See this discussion at MacRumors.
    Clinton

  • What is Fire Vault exactly?

    I'm unsure.
    I was clicking around and hit the "Turn Fire Vault on" button then clicked out.
    Now, on my log in screen there's a "reset password" button which I want to get rid of. This happened after I did this whole accidental fire vault thing.
    any suggestions?

    I'm not certain about the change password button, but file vault is a means of encrypting your entire hard drive so persons cannot access the data without a password. Once turned on, everything is password encrypted on the machine.

  • How to use Fire Vault 2 on all my external drives?

    How do I encrypt all of my external drives?
    How do I use the WIPE/ERASE feature if necessary?
    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

  • Turning off Fire Vault.

    I have unlocked the file, but cannot get it to turn off.  This started when I turned my computer back on.  I don't know what I did to trigger Fire Vault to turn on.  Help!

    I'm going to guess that you were prompted to enable FileVault when you upgraded to Yosemite, and you confirmed without knowing what you were doing. It normally takes a few hours to encrypt the startup volume. During that time, performance will be reduced. You can monitor the progress of the encryption in the FileVault tab of the Security & Privacy preference pane. If it seems to be stuck, ask for further instructions.

  • I restored my hard drive with time machine but when I log in I get "home folder protected by fire vault and needs to be repaired. But I can't get past the regular log

    I restored my hard drive with time machine but when I log in I get "home folder protected by fire vault and needs to be repaired. But I can't get past the regular log

    Maybe you might find some info to the right>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  • What's keeping me from buying the W540

    I have $$ to spend and no Lenovo to spend it on.  
    Here's what's keeping me from buying the W540:
    1) Physical buttons have been removed above the trackpad. 
    Many, many people complain about this in the W540 reviews:
    "Touchpad: I've commented elsewhere that this is the worse I've even seen. Absolutely useless. I've disabled both the touchpad and touchstick (again, useless) and just use a mouse."
    "I'd try the touchpad on the W540 for a while before you decide you can live with it, it is truly as bad as all the reviews say. I've disabled mine and use a mouse."
    "...two issues with the touch-pad. The first has to do with having to clunk the whole pad as opposed to tapping on a much smaller (and quieter) button. The second has to do with the touch pad activating when you are typing."
    Member "Bauden" provided an excellent rationale for why this feature change is wrong for Thinkpads:
    "For a MAC, a "click-pad" may work because the ENTIRE OS is designed to be used by a single mouse button. You CANNOT force this on PC users. On PC, right-click is used frequently for many essential functions, dragging and dropping and context menus . . . . the habit of using it has been ingrained into PC users by years of Microsoft tradition and applications (NOT APPS!)."
    I've used 10 Thinkpad laptops, I can't imagine being OK with that either.    Needing to use an external mouse is unacceptable.
    In fact, I'd bet the extra pressure needed to "tilt" or "clunk" the entire trackpad down to do the equivalent of pressing a gentle button from before will cause a greater frequency in RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) in Thinkpad users.
    I do not see a single person who feel this feature removal/change is an improvement.
    Therefore, Lenovo, can you please change back?
    2) Bizzarre Resolution (2880 x 1620)
    I need / want UHD. I am thrilled that you are finally selling higher quality screens on your laptops.
    (Thank you Apple for putting that competitive pressure on laptop vendors.)
    Lenovo, please provide the resolution on the W540 that you have provided on the new Y50. (3840x2160)
    Why did you choose (2880 x 1620) resolution?
    1920 x 1080 isn't an even divisor of the native dimensions at full resolution, so resolving scaling issues by going to 1920x1080 would never look exactly right.
    But **please** Lenovo, keep the screen anti-glare.
    If you make above changes, please keep the following features:
    1) Anti-Glare screens
    2) Trackpoint
    3)  2 physical drive capability, 1 SSD + 1 other
    although it doesn't sound as easy as I'd prefer:
    "Thus, no matter what anyone tells you, you CANNOT buy a W-540 and think you will easily swap a DVD drive with, say, a second hard drive. It’s minor surgery, best done with a jeweler’s screwdriver and some fine needle nose pliers.
    Be sure to read the User Guide to keep from breaking the hatch cover. When I ordered mine, they shipped the Ultrabay carrier and the hard drive from the US, so they arrived early. I had to install them myself and found manipulating the tiny screws and pulling the hatch cover to be a bit scary.
    ……Not exactly what you would call “convenient.”
    from
    http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Lapt​ops/LIVING-WITH-A-W-540/td-p/1528698
    4) Thunderbolt port
    And add back in the following features:
    I especially agree with these minuses in the "+/-" very detailed review by "Bauden"
    http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Lapt​ops/LIVING-WITH-A-W-540/td-p/1528698/page/2
    = Missing drive indicator light
    Why in the world remove that. Please add that back in.
    = Missing bluetooth indicator light
    = USB 2.0 vs USB 3.0 ports can be easily identified with industry standard 'Blue' for USB 3.0.
    Why did you decide to not do that?
    After a couple hours of reading, I'd agree with the conclusion of Bauden when s/he said:
    "Overall a nice speedy machine, but that is not by Lenovo R&D.
    Intel, nVidia, and m.2 SATA are all wrapped in a container that is very poor when expecting a product labelled "Workstation". This is NOT a workstation among the items mentioned above and the wrong screen aspect ratio for photography / graphic applications."
    http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Lapt​ops/LIVING-WITH-A-W-540/td-p/1528698/page/2
    Idea
    It seems like the team who designed the Lenovo Y50 did a great job for that machine's intended purpose.
    http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/y-seri​es/y50-uhd/
    (but is it really shipping in any quantity? Not a single user review posted to the community.)
    Maybe take the team who implemented the Y50 and have them design the new Thinkpad W550.

    Update:
    I'm glad those reasons above kept me from spending my own $ on this model since work ended out upgrading my old laptop.  Options were a W540 or a T440.  I had about 15 seconds to decide.  I went with the W540 tp get a larger screen. 
    Thoughts after several months: T
    Best thing on a day to day basis:  
    Overall, it's a screamer.  I can throw any workload at it and it doesn't flinch. 
    ( I7, 32gb memory, drive upgraded to a 1TB Samsung EVO SSD)
    Life is too short to wait on slow systems or slow hard drives.   This "best thing" overshadows everything else and makes me very happy with this system.  
    Worst thing on a day to day basis:  
    The keyboard layout. PageUp should be above PageDown.  Home should be above End. 
    Useless number key area. Why?  The NumLock key is right next to the Backspace key.  I'll accidentally toggle that Numlock key once a day or so when hitting backspace.  Then, the PageUp, Home, etc., keys on that keypad are useless and unpredictable.
    Mildly annoying:  
    1) The mousepad, for reasons described above.  Its tolerable but not great.
    2) The new DVD button location.  I accidentally open it twice a week when picking up / putting down the W540, and I've *never* used that silly DVD player.
    3) The "B" key, the key that's directly down from the red Thinkpoint tip, isn't right.  It doesn't press down cleanly.  bbbbbbbbbbbb   It's like it gets hung up on the red nibbet.

  • "Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired."

    I recently updated my macbook to leopard and after my laptop downloaded system updates, it had to restart but when I came to the login section and tried to login, I get this message:
    "Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired. Click OK to repair the folder and continue logging in. Click Cancel login to log in as a different user."
    I don't have a different user so I clicked OK, but then I get this message:
    "You are unable to log in to the user account "Kyle" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occured."
    So now I can't login and I'm a college student and need important files on my computer. Someone please help! I have class tomorrow!

    Sorry, I re-read your question and realize from the title you had file vault on upgraded and now it won't let you into the home folder. This is a known issue and I hope Apple produce a fix. I encountered this problem but fortunately I took a bootable image backup to a firewire drive. I booted off that as root and then opened the sparese image which is the home folder. This gave warnings but let me copy important documents to safety and also export address book and safari book marks.
    If you do not have a backup I am very sorry to say you may have lost those files. It is worth backing up important college work, even if it is just to CD. I hope Apple come up with a fix for this because many of us hit this problem. Part of the reason for owning a Mac is you do not expect to have these issues. It made me feel like I had just installed XP!

  • What is better sky fire or flv for gaming sites

    What is better sky fire or flv for gaming sites

    You cannot play flash games on the iPad.
    Skyfire only plays back video from some sites.
    Any browsers claiming to play flash do so by sending the video to their computer, transcoding it to mp4, then stream it to you.

  • Fire Vault Issues

    Hello one and all,
    I recently bought and installed a new HDD into my late 2009 MBP am trying to transfer everything over. I have it all backed up to an external disk. When I go into migration assistant, I can't swap my profile over because my profile is backed up with fire vault. When I re-enter my original HDD and try to deactivate the fire vault, it tells me "Turning off fire vault requires an additional 88.4 GB of free disk space on the volume '***'. Try emptying the Trash or deleting files you don't need." Well I'm not exactly a file pack rat so I definitely do not have 88.4 GB of extra files laying around. And the reason I am trying to switch out HDD is because as you may be able to tell, I am flat out of room in my HDD. Any suggestions? I'm not afraid to go into all of the fun stuff inside my mac so just about anything with enough instructions will work!
    Thanks for reading through and hopefully thanks for an answer!

    Bholland5583 wrote:
    tjk - I don't have an external enclosure but I will look into it. Thanks.
    Newegg, Macsales, Amazon, etc. a USB enclosure for 2.5" SATA HDs can be had for about $15. I much prefer FireWire 800, but that costs more.

  • Shoud the fire vault and fire wall be turned on iam a new imac user

    should the fire vault and fire wall be turned on. iam new to apple this is my first i mac

    John Potts wrote:
    Is the router's hardware firewall equally effective if one is connected wirelessly (as opposed to via an Ethernet cable)?
    IMHO, yes.
    also, if your network is protected as mentioned above, it would take a very determined hacker with lots of time to hack into it.
    additionally, make sure you password protect your base station(s).

  • What to keep in mind whilie developing under the new IOS PLA

    Hi everyone.
    I found out the the new IOS PLA was introduced on June 2nd. I could not spot any noticeable differences from the previous one.
    The fellow developers at my office are quite acquaint with the previous PLA, however the release announcement sort of created confusion among them. They all wonder what to keep in mind while developing and publishing the apps under the new PLA.
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  • I have iMac osx  version 10.8.5 and i forgot my account login password. i can't change it using my apple ID nor i remember my password.also my fire vault is not on and my keychain won't help. PS i can't also use the terminal idea it always not found.help

    have iMac osx  version 10.8.5 and i forgot my account login password. i can't change it using my apple ID nor i remember my password.also my fire vault is not on and my keychain won't help. PS i can't also use the terminal idea it always not found please help !!

    You need to restart the iMac and hold down the Command and R keys immediately.
    You will then have the utilities drop down and you choose Terminal
    When Terminal opens, type exactly:
    resetpassword
    and press Return.
    When the Reset Password window opens, select the user for which you want to change the password.
    Enter the new password twice, and then click Save.
    Accept the next dialog window,
    And then Apply
    When finished click the apple at the left side of the menu bar, and the Restart.

  • I use two PC's on a daily basis, both using 3.6.7. One does everything I would expect with regard to history, the other consistently loses history data, with no real pattern as to what it keeps and what it doesn't. Tried adjusting custom settings but no

    I use two PC's on a daily basis, both using 3.6.7. One does everything I would expect with regard to history, the other consistently loses history data, with no real pattern as to what it keeps and what it doesn't. Tried adjusting custom settings but nothing works.

    oops! that should've been 3.6.8!

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