FileVault stuck on "Encryption Paused"

Hello,

I have Sierrra. Enabled filevault and it got stuck.

Solution
:Open Terminal -> type: " sudo fdesetup disable " then paste your password or recovery keyword.

I pasted my recovery keyword and voila it worked again and the process was finished in a few hours :-D

Yay! 🙂

Thank me later 😉

I am unable to erase my hard drive in disk utilities and I'm wondering whether it's because of the fire vault encryption pause. I'm frustrated because I have a buyer tonight for my device but it's not clean to sell.

Same thing, I've got the dreaded "Connect power adapter to resume encryption" message in FileVault.

I tried all the obvious things: rebooting, resetting the SMC, zapping the PRAM, still stuck.

I then tried reinstalling OS X Yosemite: after several hours (sigh) it finished; I logged in, went to FileVault, couldn't turn off encryption but it appeared to start. It ran for 5s, then: "Connect power adapter to resume encryption".

After last year's disaster with Mail and gmail accounts, now this. Argh.

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

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.

Hi,

thanks for for your post and I’m trying it at the moment. To make things clear, herr are my steps after creating a bootable USB High Sierra :

1.i turned on my mbp holding option.

2. I selected the USB High Sierra

3. It brought me to disk utilities after loading the Apple screen

heres where I’m lost

do I open disk utility and click a disk repair on the bootable USB?

then restart?

update***

i restarted after disk repair and unplugg d everything but it still brings me to The log in screen with “Disk Password”

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

After upgrading to Yosemite, I have exactly the same problem and have tried all the obvious, like restarting, resetting the SMC and resetting the PRAM.

Still stuck on "Connect power adapter to resume encryption." while powered and on 100% charged battery.

Same exact issue here. Grrrrrrrr!

Same problem for me. I found that if i reboot the macbook without the power adapter connected, I get a notification saying that the encryption needs power to continue. If i then plug it in it will resume for about 1 minute and then get stuck again.

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.

No it doesn't.

If the wire is plugged than try to unlock to make any chances and press turn off FileVault it might help 🙂

It produces the error message: "Wait until your disk is fully encrypted before turning off FileVault."