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Encrypt External Drive

Where did the feature of encryption go for Catalina? I can't find it. It doesn't show up when right clicking on a drive.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 18, 2020 11:43 AM

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Oct 19, 2020 9:45 AM in response to spinningstill

Yes, thank you. And there was also an option to right click on an existing drive to encrypt. Seems it gone for some reason.

It is still available on all of my external drives. As I already mentioned, the only reason I know that the drive cannot be encrypted, usually a partition table reason.

Does it have an OS installed on it? That may be the reason. Of all of my drives, only the startup drive does not have the option to Encrypt.

Encrypt External Drive

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