"If your Mac currently has macOS Catalina installed, installing macOS Monterey 12.3 beta or macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 beta on a volume with FileVault enabled might cause a boot loop when attempting to ...

"I upgraded from Mac OS X 10.2.6 on my PowerBook G3 500, 512MB, stock otherwise. The installation failed somewhere during the language packs on Install CD 2 (didn't see exactly where since I was ...

All good things must come to an end, we’re told, and macOS 10.13 was the very end of the original FileVault, Apple’s file encryption format introduced in OS X Panther 10.3.

What is FileVault? Apple introduced FileVault in 2005 with Mac OS X Panther (10.3). At that time, it only protected a user’s Home folder. The technology has evolved since then and now offers XTS ...

Apple is warning developers beta testing macOS Monterey 12.3 that they could encounter a boot loop if they use it on a Mac with macOS Catalina and FileVault enabled.

In Mac OS X Lion, Apple has completely revamped FileVault, removing it as a simple encryption of users' Home folders and reinstating it as full disk encryption solution, with an apparent option to ...

Apple Computer Inc.’s secure encryption technology FileVault appears to be the latest operating system issue to affect the company in the last week. Since the release of Mac OS X Panther on ...

FileVault and crashes/power loss Although the Mac OS X 10.3.1 update allegedly fixes issues where FileVault would lose preference settings when performing a "reclaiming space" action, the update ...

Apple’s macOS has DMA protections, but they only kick in when ... The second problem is that the password for Apple’s FileVault 2 disk encryption is stored in memory in plain text if the disk ...