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Unable to abort disk decryption process

I got a 2T Western Digital portable drive as my main storage for my MacBook Air, with encryption enabled. Currently I used ~300G out of 2T, with maximum read/write speed of 30 MB/s (USB 2.0) I just ...
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MBR-partitioned HDD: How to encrypt Time Machine backup?

I'm giving my external HDD to a friend tomorrow for a few days. It's partitioned via Master Boot Record and there are two partitions: a NTFS partition and my Time Machine partition. I don't want him ...
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encrypted time machine backups to a single external hdd from more than one mbp

I am planning to get a external HDD for time machine backups for 2 macbook pros. Can both of them backup to the same HDD Can the disk be time machine encrypted and still be accessible to both?
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How to view progress when encrypting a disk?

Mountain Lion allows one to encrypt any disk by right-clicking on the disk in the Finder and selecting Encrypt from the contextual menu. Is there anyway to check on the progress of this encryption ...
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External USB drive connected to Airport Extreme doesn't show up in Airport Utility

I have connected an external drive to my Airport Extreme, but it doesn't show up in Finder, and it doesn't show up in the list of drives when I connect to the Airport Utility. The same drive worked ...