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Message: <blockquote data-quote="galvinize" data-source="post: 1819680" data-attributes="member: 210170">Another postscript for the archives of what-can-go-wrong. Once I determined that decrypting my external HD would not restore its Time Machine capacity, I re-encrypted the drive. It took three days. And now, the "Enter password" window is very slow to appear, slow to respond, and many folders are "aliases" (when opened, the message appears: "The alias "Desktop" can't be opened because the original item can't be found"). I don't believe these aliases were present before the re-crypting.  Ran Disk Utility, and got a long list of "error: Underallocation Detected on Main Device". I thing it's fair to conclude the HD is toast... perhaps due to due to the decrypting/re-encrypting?</blockquote>