I bought a new 5tb Seagate external drive and encrypted it with Disk Utility with a "passowrd hint" on my 2019 Macbook Pro (Catalina). The drive has never been used and is empty. However, the password hint did not show when I plugged it back in, so I thought maybe I should redo the encrytion. I thought I'd need to decrypt it first before encryting it again with a password hint. I clicked on "decrypt" via Finder and then immediately regretted it.
I need to pack up my Macbook Pro shortly so I need to eject the drive before I leave. How can I abort the decryption and eject the drive? Will I ruin the drive by encrypting, decrypting and encrypting again? All I want is for the new drive to have a password and show password hint
ps: I managed to erase the drive when it was still decrypting. Tried encrypting with password hint again on three different Macs (Catalina, High Sierra, Mojave) but still the password hint won't show. When I erase/encrypted using Disk Utility on Mountain Lion, the password hint would show afterwards. How can I get passwrod hint to show after encrypting using "OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)"?
I need to pack up my Macbook Pro shortly so I need to eject the drive before I leave. How can I abort the decryption and eject the drive? Will I ruin the drive by encrypting, decrypting and encrypting again? All I want is for the new drive to have a password and show password hint
ps: I managed to erase the drive when it was still decrypting. Tried encrypting with password hint again on three different Macs (Catalina, High Sierra, Mojave) but still the password hint won't show. When I erase/encrypted using Disk Utility on Mountain Lion, the password hint would show afterwards. How can I get passwrod hint to show after encrypting using "OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)"?
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