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iMac Yosemite Install Issue
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1620743"><p>This is a story I've heard many times before ... people who set up Filevault nearly always come to regret it. I haven't tried the newer Filevault 2 that comes with later Macs so I can't comment on it, but the first version was so prone to corruption/forgotten passwords/users not knowing what they're doing/etc that I never saw any good reason to use it.</p><p></p><p>To the best of my knowledge this has nothing to do with Yosemite ... what OS version did you upgrade from? The problem here is Filevault, though perhaps you could attach those backups to an older Mac (or older OS X system), and restore them ... maybe ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1620743"] This is a story I've heard many times before ... people who set up Filevault nearly always come to regret it. I haven't tried the newer Filevault 2 that comes with later Macs so I can't comment on it, but the first version was so prone to corruption/forgotten passwords/users not knowing what they're doing/etc that I never saw any good reason to use it. To the best of my knowledge this has nothing to do with Yosemite ... what OS version did you upgrade from? The problem here is Filevault, though perhaps you could attach those backups to an older Mac (or older OS X system), and restore them ... maybe ... [/QUOTE]
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