Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) not available!

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Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) not available!

I have been reading a lot on getting usb drives encrypted with password on Mac OS and that it should be so easy. But no matter what I try I just do not get the option "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)" to appear in Disk Utility. I am on 10.13.1 version of OS.

Can anyone help me here or tell me what I am doing wrong. I think I am more then advanced Mac user and have for years always been able to figure things out, but now I am stuck!

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1), iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)

Posted on Oct 31, 2017 2:52 PM

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Barney-15E

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Nov 12, 2017 1:29 PM in response to Kjei

no does not work, either way.

Are you selecting the drive or a volume on the drive?

You must select the drive, not a part of it. High Sierra hides the drives in Disk Utility. You must select Show All Devices from the sidebar popup menu in order to select the hard drive.

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Answer 2

Nov 24, 2017 12:40 PM in response to Barney-15E

After selecting "Show All Devices", selected the top level drive to be formatted. After clicking the erase, selected format with GUID Partition Table option, then the encryption options showed up.

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Barney-15E

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Oct 31, 2017 8:22 PM in response to Kjei

When the drive is not already formatted with a GUID partition table, you must first erase it as Extended (Journaled).

Then, try again and see if the encryption option is there.

If not, try right-clicking in the Finder and see if you can encrypt it from there.

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Kjei Author

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Nov 9, 2017 6:14 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Apple say it exist but can not get it to work.

Disk Utility for macOS Sierra: Protect a disk with a password using Disk Utility

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Kjei Author

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Nov 9, 2017 6:15 PM in response to Barney-15E

no does not work, either way.

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Answer 6

Oct 31, 2017 3:09 PM in response to Kjei

I could be wrong but I don’t think that option exists. You can turn on File Vault, which encrypts your boot drive. And you can create an encrypted sparse disk image and store it in that external flash drive. You will need a password to access it.

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