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  1. bigcountry333

    Ways to protect data on 2015 iMac

    I have never turned FileVault on - with only 117 GB left on the SSD, should I do that to protect my data? is that enough space? Best way to protect data on an external 14TB drive? that's currently where I store photos and music. I'm also paying the icloud $9.99 a month for storage that backups...
  2. Fallinangel

    Questions about File Vault and backup routine?

    Hi everybody, I'm planning on turning File Vault, but I don't know if it will mess up my backup routine. Currently, I do 4 backups a week of my entire macOS partition to an encrypted sparse image on an external drive, which gets backed up to another encrypted sparse image on my NAS on Sundays...
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    Writing to External Drive with FileVault is slow - Why? How to fix it?

    I have a USB3 5TB hard drive formatted as HFS+ with FileVault (full disk encryption) that I am using with MacOS Mojave. It is about 60% full and is getting slower and slower as I write additional files to it by copying files and folders in Finder. I am getting write speeds of between 80MB and...
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    Cannot Decrypt and Remove File Vault from Third-Party SSD

    Dear forum members, Background: My mid-2011 Mac mini came with a stock Mac OS X 10.7.5 running on a HDD which I then proceeded to encrypt using File Vault. Later, an SSD was installed and the data was cloned over from the HDD to the SSD without decrypting the disk first but everything was fine...
  5. K

    Lazy about restarts

    Know that slo-mo moment when you wish you could take back whatever you've just done? After turning on FileVault (which kicks off a restart) I belatedly realized a restart from a Safari update was also pending. BIG mistake. What I learned: never leave a restart pending, or if you DO, don't...
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