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Q: FileVault stuck on "Encryption Paused"

After upgrading my MPB to Yosemite, I elected to turn on FileVault. In the Security & Privacy panel of System Preferences, the status shows "Encryption paused" and the text under the progress bar reads, "Connect power adapter to resume encryption." Trouble is, I am running from the power adapter!

 

I have rebooted and tried another power adapter. The battery icon in the menu bar correctly changes from battery to power adapter as I connect and disconnect. However, the encryption status never changes. I have left the machine running overnight with no change.


Any ideas?

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 7:25 AM

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  • by Jpcastrov,

    Jpcastrov Jpcastrov Jan 25, 2015 11:20 AM in response to zinnjd
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    Jan 25, 2015 11:20 AM in response to zinnjd

    Nothing worked for me. Still stuck on "Encryption Paused". Tried everything in every possible sequence

  • by VSwaves,

    VSwaves VSwaves Jan 25, 2015 11:55 AM in response to zinnjd
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    Jan 25, 2015 11:55 AM in response to zinnjd

    Actually when I tried turning it off after it worked, it stuck on again like it was! And while it was working perfectly my battery drained a lot faster. Now it's ok, it's stuck in "please plug the power " or whatever and it's not draining my battery! That's a ridiculous problem. Apple WHERE THE **** ARE YOU?!

  • by csbyjw,

    csbyjw csbyjw Jan 25, 2015 9:34 PM in response to zinnjd
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    Jan 25, 2015 9:34 PM in response to zinnjd

    Today I purchased a new rMBP (MacBook Pro - Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) and I am having the same issue with FileVault. Not a great experience. Apple - where is the solution to this?

  • by Patrick Gibson,

    Patrick Gibson Patrick Gibson Jan 27, 2015 1:38 PM in response to csbyjw
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    Jan 27, 2015 1:38 PM in response to csbyjw

    10.10.2 did not resolve this.

  • by Jpcastrov,

    Jpcastrov Jpcastrov Jan 27, 2015 8:15 PM in response to zinnjd
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    Jan 27, 2015 8:15 PM in response to zinnjd

    Updated today. Repeated all procedures. Nothing happened. Still stuck at Encryption Paused

  • by Andy9d9,

    Andy9d9 Andy9d9 Jan 28, 2015 11:57 AM in response to zinnjd
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    Jan 28, 2015 11:57 AM in response to zinnjd

    I can't actually believe this nonsense. Just bought a brand new MBP retina 15" to be faced with this problem! Apple really need to get their act together. It would seem people have been reporting this for over six months??? I'm taking this back to the store and making it their problem.

  • by alfatek,

    alfatek alfatek Jan 28, 2015 12:30 PM in response to Andy9d9
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    Jan 28, 2015 12:30 PM in response to Andy9d9

    10.10.2 and still the same problem. God damm, just got a mac for christmas and apple is not convincing me....

     

    Tried the same instructions but without luck. One time it worked and the encryption continued but then my gf tripped the power cable and back to encryption paused... forever....

     

    I just want to force disable filevault and be done with it!

     

    Dear Apple, please fix this, it should be just a retry or force retry...

  • by kevins2015,

    kevins2015 kevins2015 Jan 29, 2015 2:37 PM in response to SvPurr
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    Jan 29, 2015 2:37 PM in response to SvPurr

    I had same problem and your solution worked perfectly, thank you very much for taking the time to post it.

  • by Hjelmis,

    Hjelmis Hjelmis Jan 31, 2015 2:10 AM in response to ninedragon
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    Jan 31, 2015 2:10 AM in response to ninedragon

    Thanks!

     

    This solved my problem.: http://www.macissues.com/2014/12/16/fix-your-mac-stuck-on-encrypting-with-fileva ult/  


    After following this instruction Filevault finished the encryption and I can finally use Bootcamp to install Windows 7 accessed from VmWare Fusion.

  • by KJ1864,

    KJ1864 KJ1864 Jan 31, 2015 5:55 AM in response to Hjelmis
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    Jan 31, 2015 5:55 AM in response to Hjelmis

    The site at this link fixed my problem as well...thanks Hjelmis!  In particular, "Marisa" added steps on Dec 30th that enabled me to do a complete wipe (deleting the group number using "diskutil command, then renaming the partition in the Disk Utility, then reloading the OS.)  This took me back to the fresh install state where FileVault was not enabled and my system now functions fine. 

     

    http://www.macissues.com/2014/12/16/fix-your-mac-stuck-on-encrypting-with-fileva ult/  

  • by Ian Toll,

    Ian Toll Ian Toll Jan 31, 2015 6:40 AM in response to zinnjd
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    Jan 31, 2015 6:40 AM in response to zinnjd

    I'm having a similar problem -- I'm not getting the "encryption paused" message, but it's been stuck with the progress bar about two-thirds of the way across (with the words "Estimated time remaining..." underneath it) since I updated OS X on Thursday evening.  Every so often the progress bar will zip across as though it's finished but immediately go back to the same place again.  I've tried restarting but this doesn't do anything.  Meanwhile, my system has slowed to a crawl and stalls frequently.  Any thoughts?

  • by ardana_robin,

    ardana_robin ardana_robin Jan 31, 2015 6:46 AM in response to KJ1864
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    Jan 31, 2015 6:46 AM in response to KJ1864


    Brand new iMac (i.e. desktop not laptop). Faultvault paused on encrypting because it's waiting for a power supply and has been stuck in this state from day one of receiving my iMac and never got unstuck since. I'm uncertain why it thinks it doesn't have a power supply since it must be plugged into the AC to even run and doesn't have a battery!

     

    I tried repairing both the logical and logical partition group (as per above article) and nothing worked to resolve this issue.

     

    This is extremely disappointing to be waiting this long to fix an out-of-the-box experienced problem. Clearly only a patch to the OS is going to resolve this issue.

  • by Paul Hammant,

    Paul Hammant Paul Hammant Jan 31, 2015 6:51 AM in response to ardana_robin
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    Jan 31, 2015 6:51 AM in response to ardana_robin

    Ardana - just take it into the apple store and report it as defective. We got ours replaces .. you've 30 days to do that.

  • by ardana_robin,

    ardana_robin ardana_robin Jan 31, 2015 6:55 AM in response to Paul Hammant
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    Jan 31, 2015 6:55 AM in response to Paul Hammant

    Thanks Paul - but I ordered online and it's all setup and configured which took a lot of time. To return it as defective would mean I'm out of a work machine for an unspecified period of time and there's no guarantee a new machine wouldn't experience exactly the same trouble given this appears to be a software glitch.

  • by NigleB,

    NigleB NigleB Jan 31, 2015 8:10 AM in response to ardana_robin
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    Jan 31, 2015 8:10 AM in response to ardana_robin

    Same, brand new MacBook Air out of the box stuck on encryption paused.  It can detect that the AC adapter is connected because the "connect power" message goes away when it's plugged in, but it never finishes.  The worst part is that the progress bar is full...so it almost got there before this bug took hold.

     

    Apple please fix this!

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