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My biggest gripe with FileVault is that it doesn't fully support Time Machine backups. Online backups (hourly) are completely disabled. To perform a backup you
by dgallagher 16y ago
My biggest gripe with FileVault is that it doesn't fully support Time Machine backups. Online backups (hourly) are completely disabled. To perform a backup you need to shutdown/restart, and then sit waiting for it to finish. Annoying if you're a laptop user ready to travel elsewhere with your laptop.
Also it breaks the Time Machine browser. If you want to do a restore, you must mount the data backup manually and find the file(s) you want to restore through Finder. Definately not elegant or very user friendly.
Some apps do have minor glitches with FileVault. IIRC, Firefox wouldn't remember certain settings if you used it with a FileVault-enabled account (not sure if this has changed in recent versions).