Fast Mac to Mac File Transfer with FileVault Enabled?

[gpspad]

I have a desktop mac mini and a MacBook Pro I transfer video project files between machines. I have a thunderbolt cable, which is faster than wireless or lan. the thing is I want to enable FileVault for security reasons.

can I still connect the mac mini and MacBook with a thunderbolt cable or does file vault kill that?

What the best way to connect to file vault encrypted computers?

 

[mfram]

FileVault won't have any effect on transferring files if you are logged in to both machines. That is, you aren't using target disk mode.

 

[hallux]

Even if you want to use target disk mode, I believe you can still unlock the volume using Finder on the machine not in TDM, using the credentials from the machine that is encrypted.

 

[gpspad]

Even if you want to use target disk mode, I believe you can still unlock the volume using Finder on the machine not in TDM, using the credentials from the machine that is encrypted.

So if I have two macs, turned on and connected with a thunderbolt cable, the macs will know to transfer the files over the thunderbolt cable and not the lan or wireless?

I thought I read somewhere that the thunderbolt cables were only good for when you were doing target mode.

 

[hallux]

Please re-read my post. I was referring to using Target Disk Mode with a TB cable and FileVault enabled.