If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

I just updated to Mountain Lion and noticed an option to encrypt my USB-connected Time Machine drive. So I did it. I have some sensitive data on here including bank information. Yes, I need it on here ...

After rebooting, you can't directly login to the encrypted user. But once logging into the normal, unencrypted user and entering in the password for the encrypted partition, you can fast user switch.

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