Having Disk Utility do the encryption always succeeds, but it does mean erasing the drive. So when it works, it works, but at least as of mojave it’s hit and miss and you have to monitor it. It’s not just me (across multiple system versions, different hardware), I’ve found a fair number of other people over the years with the same problem. Finder will tell me that a volume has been encrypted and I have to enter a password to mount it, but if I check via the command line, the encryption is rarely complete. You might be able to tell by experimenting with how long it takes on drives with lots or little data.īut, I’ve found it to be not just buggy, but potentially dangerously buggy if you really need the stuff to be encrypted. I don’t know if it encrypts unused blocks I’d hope that it does whatever turning on Filevault for the system volume does, which I think does encrypt unused blocks but not blocks that have been deallocated. That’s been there at least since mountain lion.
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