FileVault stuck on "Encryption Paused"

My happened exactly the same thing. Stuck at Encryption Paused, and already tried all the recommendation in this post.

It's no longer moving anywhere now.

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 999.7 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *999.3 GB disk1

Logical Volume on disk0s2

90C69512-39D4-41EE-B93F-424BDA646B84

Unlocked Encrypted

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 3F73020C-B0BB-40B7-8D43-ECCCB4719184

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 999695822848 B (999.7 GB)

Free Space: 0 B (0 B)

|

+-< Physical Volume 43DDC4A3-57A3-4127-8259-0ADD4C11D746

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 999695822848 B (999.7 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 8B03FB6A-B3C3-426D-9484-8C0A4730DDA1

----------------------------------------------------------

Encryption Status: Unlocked

Encryption Type: AES-XTS

Conversion Status: Converting

Conversion Direction: forward

Has Encrypted Extents: Yes

Fully Secure: No

Passphrase Required: Yes

|

+-> Logical Volume 90C69512-39D4-41EE-B93F-424BDA646B84

---------------------------------------------------

Disk: disk1

Status: Online

Size (Total): 999324516352 B (999.3 GB)

Conversion Progress: Paused

Revertible: No

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

Fixed .. Had the same problem on my Macbook Air - plugged in the magsafe power connector .. Then the progress bar changed from 'paused' to 'encrypting'.

Just a WAG, but...has anyone tried running it down to 90-95% and plugging it back in? Maybe it's looking for a 'charging' state.

Yep I did try this and replugged my power adapter at about 60%. No difference there for sure.

I tried to recover using Time Machine and even worse, it failed completely and now my macbook pro unusable. Searching For Disks, HDD no longer detected.

Internal Recovery is no longer an option. Now in the middle of downloading Internet Recovery(Command + option -R)

hopefully I can restore from time machine succesfully and forget FileVault

I have tried this one, and still Encryption Paused! it started for like one minute and it paused again.

I have submitted this as a Bug Report to Apple: #18700027 "FileVault encryption paused and will not restart".

Could the other folk in this thread please also submit it to https://bugreport.apple.com/ : hopefully it will get resolved soon!

Have the same problem!

add me to the list of exact same problem!

Is my disk encrypted even tho I am getting this message?

Also my Mac Pro does not seem to want to sleep automatically (energy settings are default), I wonder if it has to do anything to do with this....

Mine finally sent into Apple Authorized repair center.

When Trying to Install the OS X back, it couldn't detect my disk anymore, there is no longer a disk I could select.

Trying to Erase the partition also the same, the option was all greyed out, and nothing I could do.

Tried doing Internet Recovery resulted with the same symptoms finally I gave up and sent it to the shop.

I hope you guys have better luck than me.

Once all repaired, I will try installing Yosemite again without FilaVault.

Hey,

Had exact same issue, after filevault got stuck i tried restating and mac will not boot up now, tried disk recovery utilities but OS X is also not re-installing. Only thing am worried about is my data. I don't have a backup. Can anyone of you please suggest a way to get my data back before erasing the disk and re-installing.

My situation is even worse. Whenever I connect my Macbook to power cable and the Filevault encryption says it's in process but it actually stuck, no move at all. The worse thing is it causes the system to freeze so I now have to run on battery, if I plug in the power cable, the system hangs. It's so annoying.

I also submitted this bug. Hopefully Apple will look into this issue.

i have the same problem and my mac is running slow any time i plug it inn, but when on battery its normal! help!!!

I have the same problem as the two people above, after upgrading to Yosemite - it hangs or won't boot when the magsafe power adapter is connected. If the MBP is running on battery it will boot fine and operates normally.

I have a mid 2012 15" MacBook Pro, I upgraded to Yosemite and chose the default setting to use FileVault 2 Encryption. The installation seemed to go well and when I checked the privacy and security settings after installation I could see that FileVault was starting to encrypt my drive (I have a 750gb hybrid hard drive).

However when I restarted the system I started to have problems (please bear in mind that the encryption process was reporting 2 days to completion - this is a background process that is supposed to allow interruption) Then my MBP wouldn't boot at all, it would just hang on the progress bar after I'd entered my password. This was only with the power adapter connected. If I disconnected the power adapter it would boot normally. If I connected the MagSafe adapter once the system has booted the beach ball of doom appeared and the whole thing locked up. I did try launch the activity monitor (and then applied power) but I couldn't glean anything useful.

I have now had to resort to a fresh install of Yosemite with FileVault turned off. I had to erase my main partition to do this. initial testing showed that it was operating normally with the power adapter connected after the fresh install - I'm sure FileVault is the cause.

My theory is that there is a bug in the encryption process which means it can get stuck or stops working correctly - The encryption process will only run when the external power source is applied and this is when I was having trouble. So this seems to match my symptoms. I presume the encryption process attempts to resume at boot or I f there is power connected.

I'm now in the process of running a 20 hour restore over ethernet from my time machine backup. 😢 Fingers crossed. I would give FilwVault 2 a miss.

Right, Filevault 2 is the cause. Just to update, after almost spending the whole Saturday dealing with this (trying to reset PRAM several times, looking for ways to decrypt...). Finally It magically started decrypting process and finished successfully. I don't really know how that happened. I tried to turn it off through Disk Utility and I got the same message saying I have to wait until the encrypting finished to turn it off but somehow it still sends the process to decrypting .

It didn't take me a second thought to turn off Filevault after the decrypting done. Now my Macbook is back to normal phew...