FileVault stuck on "Encryption Paused"

Yes, this may be caused by the UPS bug in El Capitan.

I've had the same issue on a brand new machine, and Disk Utility repair did not help.

I remembered seeing the issue about Time Machine backups not working when a UPS was connected, and sure enough, when I disconnected the UPS and rebooted, Time Machine started working and FileVault continued encrypting.

So, if you are having this problem with El Cap, disconnect your UPS and reboot.

You Sir, are fantastic, a big Thank You. It worked like a charm as soon as the UPS USB plug was removed and rebooted. It also may answer questions about oddities using Time Machine.

El Capitan still has a few bugs. Now, if I could only get my sounds back in Mail again!!

Regards

I ran into the same problem today. I got a refurb 13.3 MBP Retina, restored it from a Time Machine backup of the prior laptop, ended up with a paused Filevault encryption that could not be un-paused or turned off. The paused encryption prevented installation of El Capitan.

Many thanks for posting the original message, and to all those who posted their solutions.

I read through everything here and was about to create a USB boot drive, but the last thing I tried worked.

I opened Disk Utility, selected the hard drive and ran Disk Repair on it. The disk repair ran and created many lines of reported activity.

One of those lines said, "The volume / was re-sized to unblock Paused encryption"

When I went back to FileVault in system preferences, the encryption had resumed (Now shows "Optimizing") and gave me a live progress bar with the calculated time remaining.

Anyone with this issue should try the PRAM reset. You won't lose any data it just fixes this issue up. To do this reset first turn your computer off (shut it down) then when turning it on press command, shift 'R', 'P' while pressing the ON button. After this you should see a black screen with white words on it. I just turned the computer off after all the white words have been said. Then turned it on again and the encryption was working.

PS sorry if this does not work for you it worked for me

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it didn't work for me.

The final lines in the 'details' box of first aid are:

File system check exit code is 0

Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required

Checking for overcommitted space in Logical Volume Group

Shrinking file system

Shrinking Logical Volume

Resizing Core Storage Logical Volume structures

A problem occurred; undoing Logical Volume resize changes.

Operation successful.

Since Apple are the ones who formatted the disk in the first place, it seems they manufactured this unit incorrectly before sending it out, because I've certainly not changed any disk partitions.

I really hate messages like 'A problem occurred' that give no details (especially in a 'details' box): it's like talking to a two year old who's just fed a sandwich to the DVD player.

This only confirms me in never buying Apple products: I only use this Mac because my work writes Mac applications and Apple prohibit virtualised MacOS.

A quick solution that worked like a charm is described here:

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/yosemites-paused-encryption-problem -fixed-in-10-10-3/

In short, just run a fsck on the boot drive and encryption should finished

sudo fsck_cs -y disk_identifier_goes_here

Worked for me on Yosemite 10.10.5.

This one worked for me.

Open in recovery mode (Command + R)

Open DiscUtils and Erase the Disk (erase the partitions you can).

Re-start - This prompts for Internet Recovery, and follow the onscreen instructions.

(Painful process I agree and if there was no backup, one is stuffed)

Well, I finally got rid of the same problem, after two long and slow years.

I tried everything you guys and all the other internet gurus suggested. All the tricks, all the command lines, rituals, whichcraft, prayers ... but no recipe was able to get my stuck FileVault back on encrypting. Always the status was the same: pending.

I couldn't do a Time Machine backup, the process was always stopped at the middle, due to an unknown corestoraged error. Shame on you FileVault!

Then, I gave up and solved the problem for good:

a)I copied all the important files to a external HD

b) erased Macintosh HD

c) installed a new copy of OS X (without FileVault of course)

d) upgraded to El Captain

e) copied back my files from external HD

Now I am very happy: my MB looks and sounds new.

The battery is alive and well. And it's faster than never!

No more fdesetup status in my life!!!

FREE YOURSELF FROM FILEVAULT TOO!

I had the same problem. one of the below fixes worked (though just a little different)

situation:

had encryption going on and showed 6 hours to finish for a 300 GB HDD on mid 2012 13" mbp runnin 10.11.6

needed to install bootcamp so wanted to stop/cancel. here is what i had to do

1. used the command "

diskutil cs revert /Volumes/title_drive -passphrase" from this site

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/using-disk-utility-to-unlock-or-dec rypt-your-filevault-2-encrypted-boot-dri…

that stopped the encryption but the status changed to 'paused'

2. unplugged the power cord - resulting in status changed to 'plug in power to resume encryption"

3. plugged the power back in - resulting in conversion status changing to "Converting (backward)" and reversion state as "Reverting". Time left 31 minutes (the same amount of time that was already spent on encryption.

i was using "diskutil cs list" command on terminal to check the status.

Hi Federico

I had this problem and tried your solution many times without success.

But I had three other (little used, non-admin) logins on the Mac in question. I went through your steps again, then removed the three extra accounts.

After one more PRAM-reset and login, the problem was gone. It didn't even appear to resume encryption: it just went to "FileVault is turned on for the disk "Macintosh HD".

So I don't absolutely know whether your steps were necessary in my situation, but I definitely needed to do something with the other accounts in order to fix the problem. It might be that other solutions short of deleting the other accounts would have worked (perhaps trying the repairs with their passwords or upgrading them to admin accounts), but in my case the extra accounts were ones I could safely destroy, so I did that.

Nick

I had the same problem, but when I unplugged the charging cable when it was at 30% and clicked 'turn off filevault' it said to wait until it's fully encrypted. I clicked ok and it started encrypting again.

-Nevermind it went back to paused halfway.

In my case, encryption was stuck at 24% all the time. I noticed that it progressed when I performed

sudo fsck_hfs -l /dev/disk0

Then I disconnected an USB HBCI Card Reader (ReinerSCT), and encryption immediately continued.

Then I uninstalled the HBCI driver for the card reader from macOS (I use Windows in a VM for banking anyway), and this fixed the problem while the HBCI reader was still connected to my iMac.

Try clicking the lock where it says "click the lock to make changes" and it will ask for the password and then it will enable you to click on the "encryption paused" and it will resume.

OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 fix all this proplem :

Resume encryption dik.

Mak partition (core storage).

upgrade if you devloper or wait 10.10.3

Same problem here too

just got started with my new macbook pro and after a few days i realized it wasn't finished

how can this be ?