Timeline for After disabling Filevault 1, is it possible to enable it again in Lion?
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| Aug 27, 2011 at 3:45 | history | edited | Gauzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
clarified to what extent filevault 1 is supported in lion
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| Aug 27, 2011 at 3:44 | comment | added | Gauzy | The question asks if there is a way to enable FileVault 1 again, which there is not - at least not yet. Within the context of 10.7, there's no way to 'choose,' and if it's been disabled, you can't get it back. I'll edit my answer to indicate that it's not 100% cut and dry. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 8:57 | comment | added | Graham Perrin | Contrary to part of at least one article recently published by Apple, Versions 1 and 2 of FileVault can work together in harmony, without conflict. Yesterday for example I disabled FileVault 2 on a computer that also used FileVault 1, the computer continues to use FileVault 1. Whilst System Preferences in Lion are without the interface for creation of (or conversion to) a FileVault 1 home, it is possible. Please see the answer from bmike. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 3:23 | comment | added | Gauzy | @Thilo this kbase article has the relevant information. The last paragraph before the "Additional Information" sections reads "You may continue to use OS X Lion with Legacy FileVault, but you cannot enable Legacy FileVault for other user accounts in OS X Lion. If you turn off Legacy FileVault, the Legacy FileVault tab will disappear and you can then choose to enable OS X Lion's FileVault 2 (disk encryption)." | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 2:37 | comment | added | Thilo | @Gauzy: "it will hang on to the old encrypted home directories". Do you have a link for that? Because I have encrypted homes and that is the main reason for me not to upgrade (I read somewhere that I'd have to give that up). | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 14:54 | comment | added | Gauzy | Yeah, it will hang on to the old encrypted home directories, but won't allow you to encrypt new ones. For clarification, I'm not aware of a way to enable the original Filevault home folder encryption under Lion. | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 14:32 | comment | added | Aron Rotteveel | Still, after upgrading to Lion, there is the ability to keep using Filevault 1, which implies that support for it is builtin the OS. I highly doubt there is no way at all to reach it. | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 14:25 | history | answered | Gauzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |