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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
No Time Machine with Encrypted HD
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<blockquote data-quote="galvinize" data-source="post: 1818729" data-attributes="member: 210170"><p>A final postscript to this thread: The external drive is now decrypted (a 24 hour process for the 400 GB content!), but it still does not show any Time Machine backups on the right-hand vertical timeline. The backed-up material is there in dated folders, but any recovered data must be retrieved manually. So it appears one cannot encrypt an existing Time Machine drive, but a new drive may be encrypted <strong>before</strong> being used for TM></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="galvinize, post: 1818729, member: 210170"] A final postscript to this thread: The external drive is now decrypted (a 24 hour process for the 400 GB content!), but it still does not show any Time Machine backups on the right-hand vertical timeline. The backed-up material is there in dated folders, but any recovered data must be retrieved manually. So it appears one cannot encrypt an existing Time Machine drive, but a new drive may be encrypted [B]before[/B] being used for TM> [/QUOTE]
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