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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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