I took my iMac to the Apple store since it was stuck at the gray screen and spinning. They hooked it up and said FileVault was encrypting and to just let it go for a day. It's been 4 days now and its still spinning.
View 4 RepliesI recently upgraded to Yosemite and now have to enter my password every time I boot up with I find annoying. It seems I need to disable FileVault to solve this problem but when I try I get a message ' FileVault is encrypting the data on your disk. Wait until your disk is fully encrypted before turning off fileVault'.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Can you partition a drive that has been encrypted with File Vault 2?
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OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
i just bought a 1T lacie external hard drive?i chose to encrypt the the back up not sure why..it just seemed to be the prudent thing to choose it is still encrypting the data after 7 hrs? what's going on?can i change this?also can i change the schedule of backups the time machine does?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi 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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI always put my 24" iMac to sleep each night when I go to bed by clicking on Finder/sleep. Twice in four days, I've tried to wake it up the next morning by touching the shift key and discovered that it had somehow turned off overnight. I had to turn it on manually with the button in the back. It may be no big deal, but it has me puzzled and a bit frustrated.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Iphone and MobileMe
My new iMac i5 (Mid 2010) is dead... after only 3 days using it...I was watching a movie in quicktime and suddenly all screen was messed up (lots of artifacts and coloful pixels all around).
It looks definitely a hardware problem (I would say a graphics card) anybody knows anyone else having the same problem? Tomorrow first thing in the morning I'll be going back to the store and returning it. I hope to get all my money back (2.000 Euros).
For two days ago safari crashes on start. It has worked perfect until then.Â
I tried to remove Safari but was not allowed to do soÂ
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I recently bought a 2014 iMac (21.5) inch 16GB machine. I'm going batty with it randomly freezing (beach ball) once every 2-4 days for no apparent reason. I've even looked at console logs and can't figure out. I've resetted SMC/PV(whatever), even reinstalled Mavericks (using a clean bootable drive). We use the iMac for two main purposes: Plex Media streaming (once a day really) and we use Juniper VPN to connect to our corporate network (which explains why you see juniper there)Â
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EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)
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My mac is 2.7ghz i5 with a 1TB HD. It has crashed about five times this week. Two kernel panics, two freezes where I can't move anything, and once it just plain shut off. I've heard that it could be the network card causing the kernel panics. I do know that the airport card has been performing very poorly but I assumed it was just because there are about three walls between my computer and the router.
Interval Since Last Panic Report:Â 1012639 sec
Panics Since Last Report:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1
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Wed Feb 1 19:38:44 2012
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iMac, iOS 5.0.1
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
Novice at VPN here, but it looks as if nothing is being encrypted when I'm connected over VPN.
Setup:Client: OSX 10.5.4, connecting to a server: OSX Server 10.5.4 via Apple's built-in VPN system.
Scenario:
� I've set up OSX Server on an XSERVE to allow VPN connections.
� I've set up the shared secret, and an account for logging in with.
� I've set up the client machine with VPN to use that shared secret, along with that username/password account.
� I've made sure to check the box "Send all traffic over VPN connection" on the client. Seems kind of silly that it's even an option, what would be the point of VPN otherwise?
� Connect: Client connects to server through VPN, no problem! It authenticates and the connection timer starts and everything is grand. We are connected via VPN!
� Begin packet sniffer on client machine in the terminal.
� Load a web page.
� Packet sniffer reveals that everything sent and received is good old plain text - NOT encrypted - just like we were not connected via VPN.
I would like to know whether it is possible to encrypt only my time machine backup and not my boot disk in Lion (or in Snow Leopard). I have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro and I've read that FileVault can really slow down pre-core i5/i7 systems, so I'd rather not encrypt the system HD. I'm not in a position to buy a new laptop, but I am ready to jump to Lion.Â
I should also ask - is this a logical thing to do? My reasoning is that I travel a lot and have to take both my laptop and my time machine external HD with me. If something happens in which I lose both, I figure that the macbook itself is reasonably secure even without FileVault since it screen locks immediately, but the Time Machine backup is an open portfolio. Plus, with the macbook, if I've lost it, I can do a remote wipe using icloud.Â
So, is it possible to encrypt only the time machine backup, and is this a logical thing to do?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Mid-2009 13" MBP
I just bought my MBP, It came in on 9/3. I'm not sure if I should be concerned by this or not.
I've had the MBP for 4 days total. Watts and the System Profiler both show that I've had 6 cycles. I'm down to 5506 mAh from 5770 mAh, and I have 95% health left. If it continues at this rate, 95 days (or cycles) or so I'll be down to a useless battery. I performed a cycle 2 days ago.
I use my MBP as such - I charge it to 100%, sometimes I'll continue to use it on the charger, other times I won't. After its charged, if I leave my room with it, I won't charge it again until it gets down to 40% or less. I'll plug it in at the end of the night, and let it charge up. Sometimes I'll take it off the charger once I go to bed, other times I'll let it charge throughout the night.
I've searched around, and haven't found a similar issue. Most of the ones I see are after a few months they are having battery issues. The Battery FAQ doesn't really answer this question for me.
I recall reading that if I keep my MBP plugged to the wall all the time ( I do), I should drain the battery to about 50% every 2-3 days, to keep the battery's juices flowing.
Personally I don't have the patience to do this all the time. Is this step really that important?
What are your thoughts?
I've been getting panics every couple days with my OSX Lion. I do have vmware running always (which I need to). I'm attaching the dump below and wondering if anyone sees anything suspicious. It always shows chrome as the suspect, but I know chrome should not be able to crash my OS.
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Here is the log from th last kernel panic I had. Trying to figure out wha tis going on.Â
Interval Since Last Panic Report:Â 41327 sec
Panics Since Last Report:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1
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Thu Jun 21 12:59:22 2012
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Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
This happened when i put my MBP to sleep. it wont wake the following hours, after 2 days it turned on.
i shut it down completely after then same thing happened, waited another 2 days then bam! turned on.
i already tried resetting the SMC still no progress.
i deleted almost all my files. no progress
I have to delete .plist files..and it usually starts working right away. (com.apple.systempreferences.plist and com.apple.preference.desktopscreeneffect.plist) I've tried resetting the PRAM, etc. The problem gets fixed, only to return about a week later. My screen saver is always set to turn on after 3 minutes.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis may sound like a stupid question but bare with me here. The Ubuntu computer next to my mac pro has a problem with wireless so I share my internet from my mac pro to it via ethernet. I have to download a large 20 gig file that will take about 2 days, on my ubuntu computer, and Im going to boston so lets say 4 days. Is it safe to leave my mac pro running for over 4 days straight? I don't want to overheat or anything.
View 24 Replies View RelatedMy firefox is all up to date. Within the last few days, firefox has been running very slow for me. Whenever I click or do anything, it takes a while to respond. Very frustrating. This is happening on my iMac. My girlfriend's parents are having the same issue with Firefox in Windows. I am trying to move all my bookmarks to Safari, but when I highlight multiple bookmarks to drag and drop, it only copies one of them. Anyone know how to fix the slowness or the dragging bookmarks??
View 7 Replies View Relatedrecently I've been getting a lot of kernel panics. They usually happen at random times when I'm browsing Safari. Most of the time I can reboot normally but once I got 3 repeating beeps when trying to start-up.
This is from the problem report:
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Originally Posted by Problem Report
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1793 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: C34C5139-B7F4-46C2-8CA4-C69C21CC73FD
Sun Sep 13 11:29:39 2009
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x00000001, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000001, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x000006e0
I bought a MacBook in late October, and it was my first, so I'm pretty new to Macs. Love it so far!
But anyway, here's my question -- my battery capacity has been at over 100% since I bought it, according to coconutBattery, and yesterday it dropped to 98%. I decided to calibrate it because I hadn't done that yet. So I let it put itself to sleep and left it that way overnight, then recharged this morning. When I first plugged it in, the capacity was at 99%. Now a few hours later, it's at 95%.
So, is it more likely that my capacity has been 95% for awhile and the calibration just helped synchronize the capacity display with the actual capacity, or did I really lose 5% in two days?!
I'm trying not to be totally crazy obsessive about this, but I really need a good battery life, and I want to keep this one going for as long as possible.
Mine has been "initializing" for 3 days now. Website says they are having Network problems. This is an unusually long time. Anyone know if there is a bigger issue?
View 1 Replies View RelatedFriday night I was on my computer on hulu watching some show. All of a sudden the screen goes black and nothing happens. I turn turning it back on it makes like a beep noise and doesn't start up. After about 3 try's it boots up and everything is ok. So I go back to hulu and I'm watching a show and then it crashes again. Try the same process works but I give up and just shut my computer and say Ill take it to the apple store in the morning. Well It was fine all day Saturday until about 11PM. I try same process and it works eventually. I've made sure that the battery is ok by doing the utilities then power battery condition was good.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using Safari 5.0.5.The preference is set to 'Remove History Items' after 1 month, but it only seems to keep about 17. How do I get it to keep the browser history for a month?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I tried force quitting, restarting and neither worked. It's done this before. I've had some problems with my Mac.
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MacBook Pro
This is probably very easy but I just can't get my attempts at applescript to work. I normally use Windows but the Apple server hosts our phone system and I've been told I have to delete all old voicemails for data protection reasons. I would like to delete all WAV files in a folder tree over 90 days old and have this script run once a week. The folder is on a disk called Vision Array, and the folder path is Vision, Voice, Voicemails with subfolders 2010, 2011, 2012, each with folders within them.
The folder seems to have some sort of security on it that only allows the Vision user to modify it. I know the Vision password. I've tried do shell scripts find -type f -exec rm etc but get syntax errors. I've tried delete every file whose modification date is less than etc but get errors saying the modification date couldn't be turned into Unicode. I also couldn't get this to recurse folders.
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Xserve
In my iCal events are deleted after 60 days. Why does this happen and can I change the setting? This is important as I need to keep diary records.
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MacBook Pro
Email from my IMAP email account that I move to Trash disappears after 7 days even though my settings are set to remove "never" on all devices (iMac, MacBook Air, iPhone, iPad). Today is 4/22. The oldest email in Trash is dated 4/13.
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Mail, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
