I'm currently upgrading the hard drive on my mid 2012 Mac Book pro and trying to clone over to the new drive.
I'm having an issue with file vault as it appears to not be making any progress even after 24 hours of decrypting my files
Has anyone else had this issue, if would really appreciate any feedback on how to progress it
It is not necessary to turn off Filevault to clone the drive if you use Carbon Copy Cloner (don't use Disk Utility to clone a boot drive). You need to have the laptop plugged into a working charger in order for Filevault to decrypt the drive. This can possibly take days if you have a slow hard drive and maybe even forever if the hard drive is failing. Also if you have the 13" model the hard drive SATA Cable may be bad. You can connect the drive externally and boot from it which would bypass a bad cable.
Personally I'm guessing your old hard drive is failing. I suggest checking the health of the hard drive by running DriveDx and posting the report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper.
I hope you have a backup since it is unlikely you will be able to recover anything from a failing drive that has been stuck decrypting.
It is not necessary to turn off Filevault to clone the drive if you use Carbon Copy Cloner (don't use Disk Utility to clone a boot drive). You need to have the laptop plugged into a working charger in order for Filevault to decrypt the drive. This can possibly take days if you have a slow hard drive and maybe even forever if the hard drive is failing. Also if you have the 13" model the hard drive SATA Cable may be bad. You can connect the drive externally and boot from it which would bypass a bad cable.
Personally I'm guessing your old hard drive is failing. I suggest checking the health of the hard drive by running DriveDx and posting the report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper.
I hope you have a backup since it is unlikely you will be able to recover anything from a failing drive that has been stuck decrypting.
Yes. During the first boot of a clean install you will be greeted with Setup Assistant which will provide you the option to migrate from the TM backup.
Thanks for details, the decrypting does seem to be making some progress. However I did make a back using Time Machine on to an external Hard Drive before I started the process. Is it possible to restore to a new SSD from this back up once its been installed
Issue with filevault while upgrading Hard Drive
