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Mounting external drives is SUPER slow

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motrek

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Sep 14, 2012
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MacInMotion said:
... I suspect that the delay in showing the password prompt is due to doing a file system check prior to decrypting, and the delay after is from doing another file system check on the decrypted file system after decrypting. ...
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I'm not sure how it would do a file system check before decrypting. I would expect the file system data structures to be encrypted. So I'm still confused. I would expect MacOS to display the password prompt almost instantaneously, since, what else can it do with an encrypted drive?
 
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