This How To video will walk you through the process of Turning off FileVault on a Mac computer.
Have not turned on FileVault on a computer since 2012 (13?), so, have not tried the iCloud method. But it appears that, yes, iCloud recovery is on. Says can recover via that route, per the dialog. Think the dialog box is a little misleading.
What is going on, from what I've seen on Apple's support site, there still is a recovery key that is generated for the drive, just that it is stored in iCloud. So, instead of you manually entering the recovery key, FileVault sign-on process extracts it from iCloud. In the old days, worked similar in that you had the option for Apple to store the recovery key for you, but, you provided three security questions, that Apple said they only stored the questions for, not the replies.
They then took the answers and melded them together to create a key to encrypt the recovery key. If you forgot the EXACT answers when you tried to recover, one was out of luck on getting that recovery key back. This method is a little less secure, imo (if someone has access to your machine and knows your iCloud password [or provide a subpoena to Apple]), but easier for people to make their device a fair bit more secure (read: someone steals your device, this secures your data) and recover when something goes wrong. ADD: if some concern, can always decrypt the drive and re-encrypt it, to doubly check that you did select iCloud option.
Have not turned on FileVault on a computer since 2012 (13?), so, have not tried the iCloud method. But it appears that, yes, iCloud recovery is on. Says can recover via that route, per the dialog. Think the dialog box is a little misleading.
What is going on, from what I've seen on Apple's support site, there still is a recovery key that is generated for the drive, just that it is stored in iCloud. So, instead of you manually entering the recovery key, FileVault sign-on process extracts it from iCloud. In the old days, worked similar in that you had the option for Apple to store the recovery key for you, but, you provided three security questions, that Apple said they only stored the questions for, not the replies. They then took the answers and melded them together to create a key to encrypt the recovery key. If you forgot the EXACT answers when you tried to recover, one was out of luck on getting that recovery key back.
This method is a little less secure, imo (if someone has access to your machine and knows your iCloud password [or provide a subpoena to Apple]), but easier for people to make their device a fair bit more secure (read: someone steals your device, this secures your data) and recover when something goes wrong. ADD: if some concern, can always decrypt the drive and re-encrypt it, to doubly check that you did select iCloud option. Do you have Two Factor Athentification enabled?
And the iCloud Keychain? Maybe it has something to do with one of those.
Could be the 2FA had to enabled before turning on FileVault. Someone mentioned the key was the answer to the security questions what you don't need anymore with enabled 2FA. So it might generate another key instead. But I don't know. I have 2FA and iCloud Keychain enabled and see that line on my Late 2011 MBP and on my Late 2015 iMac.
Can't remember if it had been there before because FileVault was disabled for a while and and I re-enabled it a few days ago. Is there an outlook client or office 365 for mac download. Do you have Two Factor Athentification enabled? And the iCloud Keychain? Maybe it has something to do with one of those. Could be the 2FA had to enabled before turning on FileVault. Someone mentioned the key was the answer to the security questions what you don't need anymore with enabled 2FA.
So it might generate another key instead. But I don't know. I have 2FA and iCloud Keychain enabled and see that line on my Late 2011 MBP and on my Late 2015 iMac. Can't remember if it had been there before because FileVault was disabled for a while and and I re-enabled it a few days ago.
Apple’s first pass at built-in encryption was, frankly, terrible. The original FileVault, introduced with 10.3 Panther in 2003, only encrypted a user’s home directory, and had a number of functional and implementation problems. FileVault 2 appeared in 2011 with 10.7 Lion, and had almost nothing to do with the original except the name. FileVault 2 offers full-disk encryption (FDE). When enabled, the entire contents of the startup drive are encrypted. When your computer is powered off, the drive’s data is fully unrecoverable without a password.
This How To video will walk you through the process of Turning off FileVault on a Mac computer.
Have not turned on FileVault on a computer since 2012 (13?), so, have not tried the iCloud method. But it appears that, yes, iCloud recovery is on. Says can recover via that route, per the dialog. Think the dialog box is a little misleading.
What is going on, from what I\'ve seen on Apple\'s support site, there still is a recovery key that is generated for the drive, just that it is stored in iCloud. So, instead of you manually entering the recovery key, FileVault sign-on process extracts it from iCloud. In the old days, worked similar in that you had the option for Apple to store the recovery key for you, but, you provided three security questions, that Apple said they only stored the questions for, not the replies.
They then took the answers and melded them together to create a key to encrypt the recovery key. If you forgot the EXACT answers when you tried to recover, one was out of luck on getting that recovery key back. This method is a little less secure, imo (if someone has access to your machine and knows your iCloud password [or provide a subpoena to Apple]), but easier for people to make their device a fair bit more secure (read: someone steals your device, this secures your data) and recover when something goes wrong. ADD: if some concern, can always decrypt the drive and re-encrypt it, to doubly check that you did select iCloud option.
Have not turned on FileVault on a computer since 2012 (13?), so, have not tried the iCloud method. But it appears that, yes, iCloud recovery is on. Says can recover via that route, per the dialog. Think the dialog box is a little misleading.
What is going on, from what I\'ve seen on Apple\'s support site, there still is a recovery key that is generated for the drive, just that it is stored in iCloud. So, instead of you manually entering the recovery key, FileVault sign-on process extracts it from iCloud. In the old days, worked similar in that you had the option for Apple to store the recovery key for you, but, you provided three security questions, that Apple said they only stored the questions for, not the replies. They then took the answers and melded them together to create a key to encrypt the recovery key. If you forgot the EXACT answers when you tried to recover, one was out of luck on getting that recovery key back.
This method is a little less secure, imo (if someone has access to your machine and knows your iCloud password [or provide a subpoena to Apple]), but easier for people to make their device a fair bit more secure (read: someone steals your device, this secures your data) and recover when something goes wrong. ADD: if some concern, can always decrypt the drive and re-encrypt it, to doubly check that you did select iCloud option. Do you have Two Factor Athentification enabled?
And the iCloud Keychain? Maybe it has something to do with one of those.
Could be the 2FA had to enabled before turning on FileVault. Someone mentioned the key was the answer to the security questions what you don\'t need anymore with enabled 2FA. So it might generate another key instead. But I don\'t know. I have 2FA and iCloud Keychain enabled and see that line on my Late 2011 MBP and on my Late 2015 iMac.
Can\'t remember if it had been there before because FileVault was disabled for a while and and I re-enabled it a few days ago. Is there an outlook client or office 365 for mac download. Do you have Two Factor Athentification enabled? And the iCloud Keychain? Maybe it has something to do with one of those. Could be the 2FA had to enabled before turning on FileVault. Someone mentioned the key was the answer to the security questions what you don\'t need anymore with enabled 2FA.
So it might generate another key instead. But I don\'t know. I have 2FA and iCloud Keychain enabled and see that line on my Late 2011 MBP and on my Late 2015 iMac. Can\'t remember if it had been there before because FileVault was disabled for a while and and I re-enabled it a few days ago.
Apple’s first pass at built-in encryption was, frankly, terrible. The original FileVault, introduced with 10.3 Panther in 2003, only encrypted a user’s home directory, and had a number of functional and implementation problems. FileVault 2 appeared in 2011 with 10.7 Lion, and had almost nothing to do with the original except the name. FileVault 2 offers full-disk encryption (FDE). When enabled, the entire contents of the startup drive are encrypted. When your computer is powered off, the drive’s data is fully unrecoverable without a password.
...'>Mac Sierra How To Get Recovery Key For Filevault(22.01.2019)This How To video will walk you through the process of Turning off FileVault on a Mac computer.
Have not turned on FileVault on a computer since 2012 (13?), so, have not tried the iCloud method. But it appears that, yes, iCloud recovery is on. Says can recover via that route, per the dialog. Think the dialog box is a little misleading.
What is going on, from what I\'ve seen on Apple\'s support site, there still is a recovery key that is generated for the drive, just that it is stored in iCloud. So, instead of you manually entering the recovery key, FileVault sign-on process extracts it from iCloud. In the old days, worked similar in that you had the option for Apple to store the recovery key for you, but, you provided three security questions, that Apple said they only stored the questions for, not the replies.
They then took the answers and melded them together to create a key to encrypt the recovery key. If you forgot the EXACT answers when you tried to recover, one was out of luck on getting that recovery key back. This method is a little less secure, imo (if someone has access to your machine and knows your iCloud password [or provide a subpoena to Apple]), but easier for people to make their device a fair bit more secure (read: someone steals your device, this secures your data) and recover when something goes wrong. ADD: if some concern, can always decrypt the drive and re-encrypt it, to doubly check that you did select iCloud option.
Have not turned on FileVault on a computer since 2012 (13?), so, have not tried the iCloud method. But it appears that, yes, iCloud recovery is on. Says can recover via that route, per the dialog. Think the dialog box is a little misleading.
What is going on, from what I\'ve seen on Apple\'s support site, there still is a recovery key that is generated for the drive, just that it is stored in iCloud. So, instead of you manually entering the recovery key, FileVault sign-on process extracts it from iCloud. In the old days, worked similar in that you had the option for Apple to store the recovery key for you, but, you provided three security questions, that Apple said they only stored the questions for, not the replies. They then took the answers and melded them together to create a key to encrypt the recovery key. If you forgot the EXACT answers when you tried to recover, one was out of luck on getting that recovery key back.
This method is a little less secure, imo (if someone has access to your machine and knows your iCloud password [or provide a subpoena to Apple]), but easier for people to make their device a fair bit more secure (read: someone steals your device, this secures your data) and recover when something goes wrong. ADD: if some concern, can always decrypt the drive and re-encrypt it, to doubly check that you did select iCloud option. Do you have Two Factor Athentification enabled?
And the iCloud Keychain? Maybe it has something to do with one of those.
Could be the 2FA had to enabled before turning on FileVault. Someone mentioned the key was the answer to the security questions what you don\'t need anymore with enabled 2FA. So it might generate another key instead. But I don\'t know. I have 2FA and iCloud Keychain enabled and see that line on my Late 2011 MBP and on my Late 2015 iMac.
Can\'t remember if it had been there before because FileVault was disabled for a while and and I re-enabled it a few days ago. Is there an outlook client or office 365 for mac download. Do you have Two Factor Athentification enabled? And the iCloud Keychain? Maybe it has something to do with one of those. Could be the 2FA had to enabled before turning on FileVault. Someone mentioned the key was the answer to the security questions what you don\'t need anymore with enabled 2FA.
So it might generate another key instead. But I don\'t know. I have 2FA and iCloud Keychain enabled and see that line on my Late 2011 MBP and on my Late 2015 iMac. Can\'t remember if it had been there before because FileVault was disabled for a while and and I re-enabled it a few days ago.
Apple’s first pass at built-in encryption was, frankly, terrible. The original FileVault, introduced with 10.3 Panther in 2003, only encrypted a user’s home directory, and had a number of functional and implementation problems. FileVault 2 appeared in 2011 with 10.7 Lion, and had almost nothing to do with the original except the name. FileVault 2 offers full-disk encryption (FDE). When enabled, the entire contents of the startup drive are encrypted. When your computer is powered off, the drive’s data is fully unrecoverable without a password.
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