![]() ![]() ![]() This may not always work, in which case you have two other options. Hold down Command-R at startup (Option by itself won’t work on a FileVault-protected Mac), and then erase the FileVault partition using Disk Utility, and then reinstall macOS. (Rich Trouton wrote up an extensive blog entry on the recovery process in 2015 that remains valuable.)Įrase via Recovery. Apple has full instructions at the bottom of this page, but it requires that you either cached your password in iCloud-which doesn’t work for another party who doesn’t have access to your account-or the person who enabled FileVault created a recovery key that they can provide to you. If you don’t have a valid password, you can try to recover one. You can also open Disk Utility from the Applications -> Utilities. Hit Command + Space to open the Spotlight Light search and type Disk Utility. However, each email I’ve received sounded fully plausible, and most had personal details attached.) Encrypt And Password Protect A Folder On Mac. (Now if I were suspicious, I’d wonder if the emails I’ve received were from people who had obtained systems illegitimately, and were trying to crack into them or reformat a system that they’d potentially obtained through another party who might not have had full authority to give it to them. You can recover a lost FileVault password or erase a FileVault drive, losing everything but regaining the ability to use the system. ![]()
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