3/13/2024 0 Comments Mac file encryption os xIf you don’t have enough, it won’t be possible, so think twice. Same deal the other way around: You will need lots of free space if you once decide to turn FileVault off. This also means, it will take some time - and as much free diskspace as you have data to encrypt. This means, everything in your users’s folder is in there, including your media (iTunes library, GB-large video files), cache-files for applications. OS X will take your whole user directory and put it in an encrypted sparse file which will be mounted as your user directory. It’s all (of your user folders) or nothing. With FileVault on OS X you have no options on what directories or files to encrypt or not. Today I activated FileVault for protecting my private data in case (hope it never ever happens!) my MacBook gets stolen (or lost by stupidity).įileVault works quite different in contrast to the Windows-like encryption, which works on the filesystem-level of NTFS. With my setup I measured the performance of FileVault vs no encryption.Ĭonclusion: FileFault slows down the system by about 4%
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