OS X :: How To Use FileVault - Where Does It Consume The Extra Space

Apr 21, 2010

After talking to AppleCare, my understanding is that FileVault works by storing the entire home directory as an encrypted disk image. Fair enough, this makes sense.

However, I'm going to configure my Mac Pro with an SSD as the boot disk, and plan to move my home directory off to the non-boot disk. With FileVault enabled, this raises a couple concerns for the SSD Boot disk.

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OS X :: FileVault - How Much Hard Drive Space Enough

Oct 18, 2010

Trying to turn on FileVault I get a message saying:
There isn't enough space on your hard disk to turn on FileVault. Turning on FileVault requires an additional 132.2 GB of free space on the volume "Macintosh HD". Try emptying the Trash or deleting files you don't need.

Finder says that hard drive "Macintosh HD" has a capacity of 499.76 GB and that 180.42 GB are available. Am I to understand that to run FileVault I would need 312.62 GB (132.2 + 180.42 GB) empty on a 499.76 GB hard drive?! Seems crazy! Might this be related to Parallels 6 or something?

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MacBook Air :: Does FileVault Save Disk Space

Jun 5, 2014

Does FileVault save disk space on MacBook Air?

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Jun 15, 2010

Can I delete the content inside my downloads folder? It's full of music and some movies. If I delete the items from this folder will it delete them from iTunes and wherever else they may be?

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Sep 7, 2010

There is now extra space between by the trash can and by the separator bar thing. There doesn't seem to be a way to undo this in OnyX?

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Mac Pro :: How To Use Spare Optical Drive Space For An Extra HD

Mar 4, 2009

I eventually opted to buy a new Mac Pro. I would like to install a 5th hard disk into it for windows. I assume this should be much easier than with the old model as I understand the optical drives are now SATA, so routing the cable shouldn't be difficult.

What I would like to know is what kind of brackets would be required to fix a 3.5" HD into a space normally used for a 5.25" optical disk space.

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Applications :: Is There A Way To Hook Up An External Drive So That Will Use That Extra Space

Jan 15, 2009

Im encountering space issues when erasing the HD free space! I get a popup message saying that i need to free up more space in order to get the job done. I cant remove any more data from the drive in order to make it more spacious for the free space erasing!

Is there a way i can hook up an external drive so that it will use that extra space?

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MacBook Pro :: Best SDXC Card For Extra Space On The Retina?

Jun 29, 2012

I recently pre-ordered the 2.3GHz MacBook Pro with Retina display with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD. I'm worried that the 256GB SSD is not going to be large enough so I am planning on purchasing an SDXC card (64GB) to help me with some more space.

Info:
MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2.3GHz i7, 16GB 1600 RAM, 256GB SSD

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Hardware :: Using Extra Time Machine HD Space As Additional Storage?

Dec 29, 2008

I've been using my external hard drive for Time Machine for a while now (a Western Digital My Book) and have only used up about 100 of its 500 GB capacity. However, I'd like to temporarily use the remaining space on the drive as extra storage, since my other hard drive just died. Is there any way to do this without erasing everything that I've backed up with Time Machine already?

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Applications :: Time Machine Requiring Extra Space / Way To Purge Older Files?

Sep 17, 2010

My iMac is currently using 192GB of the 1TB drive. I currently have a 250GB drive I'm using as a backup. My Time machine backups are starting to fail as it's telling me I only have about 60GB free, but it needs 85GB to do the backup. Any idea why it needs all the extra space?

Also, I know TM keeps several copies of the files based on the date - is there a way to purge older files (e.g. delete anything > 1 month old)?

I'm going to eventually get a larger drive for backups, but thought I had plenty of time since I'm only at 75% capacity on the backup drive

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Software :: Deleted My Filevault Sparsebundle - Error Opening This Users Filevault

Feb 24, 2009

i thought my filevault sparsebundle was my timemachine backups, and it was taking up 125gb of space.. so i deleted it, now when i try to log on it says "error opening this users filevault" and so i started it in command line and now i tried to run it in single user mode, but it won't let me type any letters when it is installing and it just wont work.

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Mac Pro :: How Much Energy It Consume

May 30, 2008

I am looking for a ups for my macpro so wanted to ask you guys how much energy the macpro consumes? I asked at the apple store and a tech guy told me the minimum a macpro (stock configuration) uses is 250watts and the maximum 350watts, can I trust these numbers?

I have the stock configuration with a geforce 8800 and added 4 more hard drives and another 8800, so I am guessing I will need an ups around 600 watts?

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OS X :: Why Slowly Consume Hdd

Apr 15, 2009

I ran out of hard drive space. 7 gigs left out of 85. So I wiped and reinstalled, to try to speed things up, get rid of any fragmentation, etc. I have yet to install Photoshop, and I think I may have a few .plist files left to transfer over, but right now, with ALL of my data back on it, I have 35 gigs free. That's 28 more then I did before.

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OS X :: Does The Infrared Consume Battery Power When Not In Use

Oct 19, 2010

Leave it on or turn it off like bluetooth for longer battery life?

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IMac :: Do The I5 Machines Consume Significantly More Power Than The C2d Ones

Oct 27, 2009

Can't seem to find this info anywhere.

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MacBook Pro :: Is It True That Sleep Consume Less Power Than Boot?

May 21, 2012

I have 3 questions here to ask:

1. Some say that sleep consume less power than boot, but some say it isn't. Which is true? and how it can be?

2. Is it true that charging your macbook pro until 100% then unplug it will make cycle count go faster than using AC power all day and ONLY using battery when we couldn't find AC outlet will make it slower?

3. i found that some macbook user leave their macbook charged all the time and some macbook user prefer use battery all the time. Which way is better?

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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PowerPC ::When Downloading Via Wireless Network At High Speed, PB 12" Will Consume Lot Of CPU Power?

Jan 30, 2007

When downloading via wireless network at a high speed, my PB 12" will consume a lot of CPU power. For instance, 1MB/s, almost 90% CPU.

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OS X :: Cannot Enable FileVault

Jun 12, 2009

I just reinstalled Mac OS X in my mac mini - new hard drive (320GB) and I wanted to try the FileVault feature for once.... but I get a message saying that my home folder is not in a Mac Extended FS.

I checked the Disk Utility and I have only 1 partition formatted with Mac Extended FS (Case Sensitive).

Is there a special setup to enable FileVault? (I'm new to this stuff)

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OS X :: Lost Filevault Data ?

Jul 25, 2009

I recently did a fresh OS install of my mac. I knew that everything was safely backed up on my external drive (through time machine). However, for some reason my filevault home folder ISN'T showing up on the external drive. I am quite certain the files are there, it's just my mac can no longer read them it seems....Is there any way to recover this data?

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OS X :: Recovering Files From Filevault

Nov 23, 2009

My mac recently crashed and did not start back on. In worry, I installed my leopard DVD to start back the computer. As far as I remember everytime I shut my comp. down it went though FILEVAULT. And now in order to the computer to work I had install everything again. So I did. It asked me to delete all files and folders and I clicked YES, hoping I have in my time capsule or filevault.But now I don't know to restore my files.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: 2 Ssd's In MBP - Will Filevault Encrypt Both Of Them

Apr 5, 2012

i have 2 ssd's in my MBP. Will filevault 2 encrypt both of them? One has lion 10.7.3 and all the apps etc, the other one has my home folder.

Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: Can't Logon Through Filevault

Apr 6, 2012

I had some problems after updating the iTunes, and at the end, I decided to use Time Machine. Picked a date before iTunes update, but after finishing, I could not logon. The filevault came with a warning, not able to logon to "my acount name", due to a failure. I'm 100% of the password, and when i try other passwords, it simply shake. I can logon through guest, but all programs, files etc are gone. 

Anyone who knows about this...what to do? Is there any way I can collect the information from the Time Machine? When I'm possitive about the right password? 

When i just reinstall Lion, there are a few programs missing...iPhoto, iWeb, Garage etc...Should i start installing Snow Leopard, and afterwards the Lion? Dont wanna spend money on the programs that i had earlier through the Snow program... 

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Lion and FileVault

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Reactivate Filevault

Jun 27, 2012

My filevault is not in the active mode. url...Cannot activate as the bottom is inactive.What is wrong? A time machine backup ist available. Can I use that to repair my Lion?

Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X Yosemite :: FileVault Is Not Finishing

Dec 4, 2014

I have a problem with FileVault on my MacBook Air mid 2013, with yosemite 10.10.1 installed. On initial setup I turned on encrypting and it finished in an hour. But then I realized it uses too much energy and tried to turn it off, but it said the encryption is not finished and i need to connect to the power adapter. I've done it, but nothing happened. Even though the progress bar shows it's finished, I can't now turn it off.

Info:
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

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OS X :: FileVault And PowerPoint 2008 On MacBook Pro

Jan 30, 2009

I just enabled filevault for my macbook pro, I was worried about it while on campus and traveling and wanted an added layer of security. Now my powerpoints won't work, they won't even load, this only happened since enabling powerpoint yesterday. Is there anything I can do to make it work or do I need to disable filevault?

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MacBook Pro :: Should I Use FileVault To Encrypt Drive?

Jun 29, 2010

Or are there better ways to do this? I read about some disadvantages and I won't be able to use file sharing with windows. I want to make sure my data's protected if my MBP got stolen.

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Software :: Won't Work With Filevault / Can't Unlock

Mar 30, 2010

Macbook, bought in 2006, 10.6.2

had the spinning rainbow for a day, went to gray screen with apple icon and spinning time wheel, but no boot. Went to safe boot, fscky, 3 attempts no fix.

Decided for re-install, went to target mode, everything in Home Folder is gone. Facepalm. I run Filevault. Last backup 1 month ago, no maintenance user. Am i locked out?

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Intel Mac :: Unable To Log In FileVault Error?

Feb 3, 2012

Just returned from the apple store. They can't explain what happened but there is a FileVault error and it cant be fixed. We now have a parallel login but no software or files are on it. The tech at the store suggested someone who may be able to get into the FileVault. This just suddenly happened with no forewarning.  The iMac is under a year old.

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iMac, iOS 5

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: How Secure Is FileVault Encryption

Mar 24, 2012

I'm looking to encrypt data on my hard drive. I keep hearing about truecrypt. How robust is FileVault and where can i find out how to use it? 

Info:
MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 2.2 Ghz Intel Core i7

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Find Out If FileVault Is Enabled?

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How do I find out if FileVault is enabled?

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