OS X Mavericks :: Can't Decrypt External HD
Jun 28, 2014
I have an external WD MyPassport HD that works well. I encrypted it and used it as my Time Machine backup disk for the past year.
Enter Mavericks. After a system failure a few days after Mavericks installation, I found a large iNode file in my root lost+found folder. The iNode is nothing special, simply a .pkg of the Mavericks installer. However, ever since that file appeared, my system refuses to acknowledge my password for the external HD. I know the password, it hasn't changed. But the password entry window does that wiggle thing whenever I enter the password. No, caps lock is not on.
So. I restarted in Safe Mode. Now, Mavericks recognizes the password for my external! Ain't that something? I would love to know why it doesn't recognize it in Normal boot mode.
But I still have a problem. Of course, it logically follows that I should decrypt my drive, erase Mavericks, and reinstall. Because, you know, I'm afraid of forever losing access to that drive if I reinstall OS 10.8 or even venture for 10.9 again, and the drive is still unreadable.
All of my backups are on that external disk, and while Safe Boot will READ the disk, IT WON'T DECRYPT IT! Does this have anything to do with indexing? Because another problem I'm having is Spotlight doesn't really work since I installed Mavericks either.
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Apr 26, 2012
My issue is with Preview. The annotate feature used to work fine, but now all of a sudden it cannot decrypt my signature (or anything taken with the iSight camera for that matter). I am running 10.7.3 on a 15'' mid 2010 MacBook Pro.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Seagate 4TB expansion HDD
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