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Can I clone Mavericks with file vault activated?

That's the question. Or do I need to decrypt the drive first? Moving the system to a SSD.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 15, 2014 2:46 PM

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Posted on Jan 15, 2014 3:19 PM

You don't have to decrypt it. You do have to boot into Recovery mode and then unlock the volume in Disk Utility before copying it.

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Jan 15, 2014 3:19 PM in response to ExtraO

You don't have to decrypt it. You do have to boot into Recovery mode and then unlock the volume in Disk Utility before copying it.

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