How to stop FileVault full disk encryption in progress.Please advise asap please Thank you

How to stop FileVault full disk encryption in progress.Please advise asap please

Thank you

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), Please help asap

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 12:34 PM

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Macalexa

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Posted on Sep 21, 2017 6:53 AM

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 😉

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Aug 5, 2017 7:49 PM in response to nikguidone45

i just ran it all day and night then next day i was able to go back in file vault and do a unencryption. Now its ok

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