Apple's trademark for features of the Mac OS X operating system involving encrypting computer data for security purposes
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Apart from being able to encypt an entire volume, what are the other differences of FileVault 2 over FileVault?
Does FileVault 2 in Lion have any other differences compared to the old version, FileVault in previous releases of the system? Are there any additional benefits to using the new version?
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How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space?
Every few days I get notices on my MacBook that it's running or run out of hard drive space. Curiously, restarting the computer will enable me to recover gigabytes of space (this past time, it was ...
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How to recreate Lion Recovery HD partition?
I have a Macbook Air Mid 2011 which came pre-installed with Lion.
After a trackpad hardware problem I wanted to be sure that none of my programs was responsible for the problem. I booted into the ...
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Is File Vault 2 whole disk encryption or whole partition encryption?
Can I use File Vault to encrypt only some of the partitions on my disk (so that I can still have unencrypted and Windows partitions on the same disk), or does File Vault encrypt the whole disk so that ...
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How can I get Time Machine to back up the contents of a File Vault while logged in?
Disclaimer: this question and answer are targeted to the Snow Leopard implementation of FileVault where the user home folder is only encrypted in a bundle. Lion's implementation of FileVault doesn't ...
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Unable to create Guest Account after enabling FileVault
After upgrading to Lion, I tried creating a guest account and it worked.
I enabled FileVault on Lion and went through the process of encryption. After that, when I am trying to create a Guest ...
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Time Machine + FileVault on Lion or Mountain
If I stop the backup it says: "now encrypting...", is the data saved "not encrypted" before being encrypted? Can I make it "always encrypted"?
Non-encrypted transfers are a problem for me.
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Speed of old Filevault vs. new Lion full disk encryption
How do the old Filevault and the new Lion full disk encryption compare speed wise?
ATM I am using Snow Leppard with FileVault to encrypt my whole home directory, which makes opening IPhoto, Chrome or ...
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Disable a user's ability to unlock a FileVault 2 volume at startup/login time
I recently performed a clean install of Lion on one of my Macs. The installation process created one administrative user account. After installation, I enabled FileVault for the entire disk. Then, I ...
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With File Vault ON are time machine backups encrypted?
I have been using time machine to back up to a wireless external drive since I got my mac. Today I used filevault to encrypt my hard drive.
Will this affect how Time Machine backs up my files?
Will ...
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How to create a pseudo-guest account in Lion with FileVault 2?
The guest account always had very limited permissions, unfortunately since activating FileVault on Lion it's deactivated by default. (More about it here: Unable to create Guest Account after enabling ...
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Can Time Machine volumes be easily encrypted with FileVault 2?
Now that File Vault 2 can encrypt the entire disk and encrypt external drives, can I have a fully encrypted Time Machine volume?
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For a FileVault user of Mountain Lion: can I avoid the automated login, which normally follows unlock of the encrypted startup volume?
I have FileVault enabled with two users:
AdminGuy
OtherGuy.
I want AdminGuy to:
have the ability to unlock the HD, and therefore only he can enter a u/n + p/w at boot to start boot up
have the ...
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After disabling Filevault 1, is it possible to enable it again in Lion?
It seems that after disabling Filevault 1 in OS X Lion, there no longer is an option to choose between Filevault 1 and Filevault 2 functionality.
I actually prefer Filevault 1 over Filevault 2, since ...
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Guest login got enabled even though FileVault 2 is enabled and Guest login is disabled
I rebooted my Mac yesterday after installing the Apple update TS4088. Even though I disabled Guest Logins in my Users Preferences and have enabled FileVault 2 since the start, I am able to see Guest ...
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FileVault 2 gives “boot file not written” error
I'm trying to enable FileVault 2 in Mountain Lion, but a few steps into the process of turning on the encryption I get the error "Boot file not written" and the encryption fails to succeed.
Anyone ...
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Can FileVault show the login window as 'name and password', not 'list of users'?
Normally, Mac OS X lets you choose to show the login screen as a list of users (you click to enter the password), or two text fields (you enter the username and password):
But, I use FileVault 2. ...
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FileVault sparsefile uses double of actual allocated disk space
I just noticed that for some reason disk usage (du) reports that FileVault in my home directory would use its allocated disk space twice:
[/Users]% sudo du -h -d 1 .
184G ./.moo
170G ./moo
204K ...
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Is the performance of Lion + SSD + Filevault2 good enough for a system primarily used for application developemnt?
I'm looking to buy a MacBook Pro w/ SSD.
I was wondering if anyone out there has noticed any significant performance drop with FileVault2 enabled for the following tasks:
Small (under 2 GB) ...
