Unable to Install OS X El Capitan FileVault conversion in progress

Even after successfully following these steps and letting it run over night my Conversion Progress remains Paused.

Thanks much for the translation!

Unfortunately, it did not work for me. Like ntrvrs, I was able to follow the steps, but the decryption is still stuck on "estimating time of conversion", and never progressing.

Any further help is greatly appreciated!

To stop the file conversion process, I had to cancel the install (along with the file conversion) and re-install. I was crossing my fingers in the hopes that nothing would be lost from my disk. Nothing was. I can't make ANY guarantees to you that you won't loose anything!!!

The El Capitan installer is named “Install OS X El Capitan”. This program is removed after install finishes. If it is gone, you will have to download it again. The recovery partition tools will let you connect to the app store and download another copy. You will find "/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan" if it has not been removed.

Obtain an 8 or 16 GB thumb drive.

Boot into the recovery partition by holding down the option key while rebooting.

Once the system is up, start the utilities residing there and look for /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan. Download if missing.

Insert thumb drive.

Format the thumb drive using the Disk Utility to format it to HFS+ with a GUID partition scheme, naming it INSTALLER.

Turn the thumb drive into a boot device installer using a Terminal session (double-click on /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. Hit "command +" a few times to enlarge terminal text if needed). note: Anytime you type something with spaces in it, each space MUST be prefixed with a backslash. Thus the funny looking command line below interspersed with backslashes. Copy+paste the following command line into the terminal:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/INSTALLER --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction

It will ask for your password. Enter it, hit return and soon you will have a new, bootable install device.

Boot off of the thumb drive (reboot with option key held down) and soon you will see the El Capitan install process unfolding on your terminal. I did not re-request encryption of my disk. When the install is complete, remove the thumb drive and reboot. Good Luck!

I saved a copy of the install file so that I would not have to wait through another download if something went wrong.

A good resource

Hey, On the first terminal window did you run diskutil cs list again? You need to run that after you run ./corestoraged to see the progress.

Also, as for the terminal commands it makes better sense to do the following on the second terminal window:

cd /usr/libexec/

and then run:

./corestoraged

This will give you an empty prompt, that's ok. Just go back to the first terminal window and run: diskutil cs list

Hope that helps 🙂

Tried this script but starting corestoraged wasn't getting the conversion off paused and the other terminal window hung. BUT I then tried going into DiskUtil first and unlocking the Mac hard drive which is encrypted. Now the script works and progress is at 76%. Hasnt moved yet so we will see whether I've got a fix!

I finally gave up on hoping for a patch release to 10.10 and did the "clean install" + Time Machine backup. I was worried about loosing stuff with homebrew but this did the trick for getting homebrew packages linked back up:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23038511

Man you rock!!!! Thanks a lot!!!

Thanks a bunch Mewiki.. Did not have to sit on a call with Apple, explaining my ignorance. You made me tinker a bit, and feel like I accomplished something. I seriously thought my Macbook Air is toast. You are a genius. Wonder how you cracked it. And glad you shared it.

Best,

Sunil

Type activity monitor on spotlight and then take the cursor on top menu bar > click on view > click on windowed processes > if you see system preferences written in red colour system preferences not responding ) .

Select it > go to force quit > quit system preferences .

You can do this with just one line: /usr/libexec/corestoraged

me too. been coming to this thread for almost two years hoping. still nothing works. i'm about ready to take drastic measures and wipe out my hard drive and attempt to start fresh. this is wack

This line contains a typo (incorrect use of the word: file):

- Searched for the binary 'corestoraged': file / -name 'corestorage*'

it should be (now using the correct command: find):

- Searched for the binary 'corestoraged': find / -name 'corestorage*'

Dude, you saved my ***! This worked! Thanks so much!

I was trying to install Sierra but the File Vault screwed things up and was paused just as described here, which completely blocked me. I could not even login to turn File Vault off! I followed all instructions exactly, and your solution worked. The only difference for me was that after the file conversion process had been completed, there was also an "optimization" process that then started after conversion had been completed. Rather than interrupt this, I opted to let it finish--which took about 2 hours! Once optimization was done, I was then able to use disk utilities to install a new OS, which turned out just to be the Sierra download that started all the hardships. All data was saved, nothing was lost, no settings changed. Phew! What a relief! Thanks so much!!!