With FileVault enabled will Find My Mac work?

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With FileVault enabled will Find My Mac work?

If a Mac laptop has FileVault enabled on Lion will location services like Find My Mac be able to locate a lost or stolen Mac laptop?

If not then the data on one's laptop would be secure but you'd probably never get your laptop back.

lenn

MBP(4.1) 15", 2.4GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iMacCore Duo 1.83GHz, iPad(3G), iPod Touch, Airport Extreme N

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 10:12 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 14, 2011 5:02 AM in response to lenn5

Find My Mac is currently not supported in Mac OS X.

As FileVault 2 requires a passphrase, so the guest user can neither start the system, nor log in to a system that is already started.

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Sep 16, 2011 12:21 PM in response to Graham Perrin

So if you have FileVault in Lion enabled your data is safe but you probably won't ever see your laptop again since location finding apps like Find My Mac, lojack, ect won't work.

lenn

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Answer 3

Mar 4, 2013 12:46 AM in response to lenn5

Check this out

http://www.macworld.com/article/1163387/can_filevault_2_and_find_my_mac_foil_thi eves_.html

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