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Some possible fixes if FileVault goes awry
Authored by: violablue on Jun 05, '10 12:02:57PM

Thank you! Invaluable advice.

I recently bought a new Macbook and while trying to transfer over files, File Vault on my iMac became nightmare city. So I had to erase the MacBook and reload files.

So that got up and running again, but without my core files. The iMac File Vault would not allow File Sharing either. And I couldn't shut it off because it kept coming up as an error. So I did the delete User thing so I could root through files to my New User account (without File Vault) and wango, no permission to mount the image. Oh, stomach full of lead.

After leaving a panicked message with a Mac repair in the area my copying of the sparse image file finished (for a second file to play with in case I wrecked the only one). I tried to open the copy and it asked nicely for a password instead of just refusing permission, and it actually opened. Elation.

So never did get to drag it to Disc Utility.

Thank you thank you thank you!



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