Shut down hang after FileVault legacy undone.

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Shut down hang after FileVault legacy undone.

After undoing the filevault legacy on my 2008 MBP 17" with MLion, the computer 'appears' locked in a shut down process. It has been at the grey screen with the spinning wheel for 12 hours now.

It did say the process was going to take 5 hours to undo the encryption. Is it now recovering disk space or locked up? Is it safe to force a power off or should I give it more time?

There were no technical issues to report prior to this event and the process was initiated to move on to filevault 2.

Always leary of a process interuption. Thoughts please.

2.8 GH intel core 2 duo Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Aug 18, 2012 9:02 AM

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PaperCorp Author

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Aug 18, 2012 9:58 AM in response to PaperCorp

Update: impatience said to force the shut down and see what is up.

Result: restart is fine... FileVault is still active though. Strange. Will repost as a new question when I know more.

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Feb 23, 2013 5:23 PM in response to PaperCorp

Dear papercorp,

I have exactly the same problem. It has been on fret screen with rotating circle for 12 hours. Did you manage to turn your legacy firevault off

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vewdew

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Feb 23, 2013 6:45 PM in response to Mattyarm2010

Hey M,

Interupting the stuck process caused no problem for me. Forced shutdown.

What I did was to create a new profile. Then moved everthing over to the new profile (remember your itunes and iphoto files - I exported, moved to the new profile, then imported.) Instructions exist for this elsewhere but it is no big deal, mostly drag and drop to the new profile's drop box.

Once I was satisfied that the new profile was working as I wanted (I kept my old profile around for a few weeks), I then deleted the profile with the legacy filevault issue.

My computer is noticably faster in all areas. Not elegant but solved, the only time consumed is the file copying time. There are other solutions I am sure, but this was guaranteed.

Hope this helps.

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