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10.4: Increase the max size of a FileVault directory
Authored by: Tomster on Mar 22, '06 08:52:53AM

Isn't this a rather convoluted way of doing it? If maximum capacity has been reached by the sparse image, something I've not yet experienced, then why not just do the following two steps?

1.Turn off FileVault, thereby copying off all of the files in ~/ and removing the sparse image.

2. Turn on FileVault thus creating a new sparse image of the correct size and copy on all of the ~/ files.



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10.4: Increase the max size of a FileVault directory
Authored by: PanicRoom on Mar 22, '06 11:40:11AM

In my experience, once the size of the Home folder exceeds a certain percentage of the total HDD size (over 60%[?? -- someone please correct me here]), it is no longer able to encrypt/decrypt. You get an error message saying that there is not enough available space on the drive to complete the procedure. This may have since changed under 10.4, but under 10.3 on my iBook I had to copy GBs of media files to a firewire drive, log out (which adjusted the sparse disk image size back down), log back in, then turn off FileVault and finally reimport my data back.



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10.4: Increase the max size of a FileVault directory
Authored by: lincd0 on Mar 22, '06 01:26:15PM

Because that would defeat the purpose of FileVault, which is to avoid writing your files to disk in the clear. Deleting a file merely removes the directory entry, not the data.



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10.4: Increase the max size of a FileVault directory
Authored by: murali1080 on Mar 22, '06 04:00:07PM

You can use something like 'secure erase' to overcome the data being left behind even after a transfer to an encyrpted sparseimage. There is an option for it while you choose filevault for an account.



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