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getting files from busted Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1247147" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>That would be why you're having trouble. You need to authenticate in order to unlock that data.</p><p></p><p>Try booting from that drive (no guarantees that it will work since the drivers installed are for the older machine).</p><p></p><p>You should be able to do this by shutting your new machine down, turning it back on and holding the Option key. You should see the external drive appear as a boot option after 30 seconds or so. Click on it and it should (hopefully) boot the system from the drive. Once you sign in using your credentials, those files should unlock and then I would recommend turning off FileVault until you can offload all of your data.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1247147, member: 24098"] That would be why you're having trouble. You need to authenticate in order to unlock that data. Try booting from that drive (no guarantees that it will work since the drivers installed are for the older machine). You should be able to do this by shutting your new machine down, turning it back on and holding the Option key. You should see the external drive appear as a boot option after 30 seconds or so. Click on it and it should (hopefully) boot the system from the drive. Once you sign in using your credentials, those files should unlock and then I would recommend turning off FileVault until you can offload all of your data. [/QUOTE]
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