Unable to turn off FileVault 2 (Lion)

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Hello There,

For some reason I'm unable to turn off FileVault 2

Tried rebooting , no luck

Tried diskutils to check permissions and disk , everything looks fine , still no luck

The only thing I can see in the Console logs about this is the following error

23/07/11 17:39:22,910 System Preferences: *** CoreStorage conversion failed with mainError: -69750; detailError: 0

Looked up discussions here and google ... nothing about that either 🙂

That's pretty much it and I'm stuck

Any help would be appreciated

Luc

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 8:48 AM

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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I have the same problem. I enabled FileVault 2, but now i'm trying to disable it and I am getting an error I can't figure out.

I have tried multiple things and none seems to work. The good thing is i'm just testing it with no important data in it.

Answer 3

Same issue...

Clicked "Turn Off FileVault...", and git this...

Clicked "Turn Off FileVault..." again and got this...

Clicked "Turn Off Encryption" and got this...

Clicked "Turn Off FileVault..." and got this...

Clicked "Ok"... (will continue in next post, unble to post the rest of the screenshots)

Answer 4

Continued from last post...got this...

Clicked "Restart & Turn Off Encryption" and got this...

And from there it loops back to the beginning. REALLY frustrating...

Answer 5

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Well ... As the OP , I can tell you I did not get any solution from Apple for this.

I did not find any myself either.

In the end , the only fix I found was to do a full backup using time machine ... and then restore it (using OSX install DVD).

Good Luck