I replaced the internal 2 TB hard disk of my iMac Core i7 (late 2009) with a 4 TB drive running Yosemite 10.10.1 (after cloning the original to the new one). I restarted several times, added ...

OS X: FileVault does a great job of protecting your Mac. Every time you boot up, it asks for your password. If you're troubleshooting or providing remote support, though, entering it every time is ...

Tony Padgett uses FileVault in macOS to encrypt his startup volume. However, it occurred to him that because he routinely updates a bootable clone of that drive, his clone remains unprotected at rest.

Well, we had a mandate to encrypt our data, so as of a couple of weeks ago, all of our Mac laptops have filevault enabled.And then the problems began.I honestly don't believe this is *directly* a ...

FileVault secures a user’s Home directory content with 128 ... this is where the problems start. If you let FileVault reclaim this lost space, you could run into problems after you ...

Instead, with FileVault enabled, you’ll have to manually log in every time. This will even be the case after waking your Mac from a sleep state, as well as attempting to use the system when ...

The upside: FileVault comes by default in OS X; no need to buy a more expensive version of the OS (like in Vista). You don't have to repartition a drive, make startup USB keys or get a better hard ...

If you use FileVault and wish to restart remotely, you can do so with the "fdesetup" command; however, this does have some hardware limitations. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...