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I originally had the encryption turned on for my macbook I purchased back in 2015. It ran fast enough that I did not mind it. The thing that ultimately convin
by tmaly 10y ago
I originally had the encryption turned on for my macbook I purchased back in 2015. It ran fast enough that I did not mind it.
The thing that ultimately convinced me not to use it was a seasoned apple store employee. He said if something goes wrong and you have it turned on, we cannot recover your data for you.
I am more risk averse, so I went with not encrypting the entire drive.
If I did need some encryption on OSX, I would probably go with creating a directory and using the Disk Utility that is built into OSX to just encrypt that directory.
- majurg 10y agoWhy not just regularly back up your machine? I wouldn't expect apple store techs to recover my data anyway if I had to bring in a machine for repairs.
- ThatGeoGuy 10y ago> He said if something goes wrong and you have it turned on, we cannot recover your data for you. Contrary to the belief of the person you spoke to, this is a feature of encryption, not a bug. And you are not more risk averse by leaving encryption off, you're taking a bigger risk and assuming that the hardware will fail and you'll lose everything important on disk before you are able to back it up. In this scenario, it is more likely your laptop will get lost or stolen and you will wish that the info was non-recoverable by whoever ends up owning your laptop.