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| I've used it and had problems/didn't like it. |     | 7 | 19.44% |
| I've used it and had no problems/liked it. |    | 4 | 11.11% |
| I haven't used it but think it's a good thing. |    | 13 | 36.11% |
| I haven't used it but think it's a bad thing. |    | 12 | 33.33% |
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April 25th, 2007, 04:14 PM
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#10
April 25th, 2007, 11:16 PM
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| Can't see how an encryption method that can't be undone if you forget the password could be a good thing.
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April 26th, 2007, 03:44 AM
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| Used it from the first day on my laptop and almost a year, haven't had any problems. Had more than 10 forced shutdown/reboot. The only thing that might have been caused by FileVault is that my Application and Support directory got corrupted. I was not able to read it, delete it, or write to it. Luckily I've got a backup. I did try to turn it off a few months ago, but I think my home directory has grew too big and it always fails to decrypt everything, so I leave things as they are.
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April 26th, 2007, 05:03 AM
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__________________ MacBook Air 13" 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 MacBook 13" 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 Hackintosh Core2Duo 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 iPhone 3G 16 GB (v2), AppleTV 1G 40 GB (v2) Mac user since 1987, Apple Product Professional 2007, 2008. |
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#13
April 26th, 2007, 05:33 AM
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| OS X allows you to set a master password for FileVault as well, so you could unlock FileVault with that even if you forget your account password. That's about as accommodating as any security system can be while still being secure.
__________________ Mac mini — 1.25GHz G4, 1GB RAM — OS 10.5.2 I'm now a four-browser man. How on earth did this happen?! Useful programs: PithHelmet, Butler, ffmpegX, VLC, Perian, Tofu, Wcalc |
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#14
April 26th, 2007, 12:28 PM
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| For encrypting folders, iProtector is useful (although the encrypting/uncrypting process may not be to everyone's taste).
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#15
April 26th, 2007, 03:02 PM
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| I think it's good to provide several levels of security. I don't use it at home, but we have something equivalent on the portable PCs at work to avoid that anybody can steal one of our drives to get access to our data... it did happen probably 15 years ago when we presented a new software on a fair.
__________________ My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" with MacOS X 10.5.1. My Apples are here. My oldest Apple was born in 1977. Surf my .mac web site. GS/P/>SS d-(++) s+: a+ C+(C) U* P L+ E--- W++ N- o+ K? w O-- M++ V PS+ PE+ Y- PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv-- b+++ DI++ D+ G e+++ h---- r+++ y? Time is not changing, I'm just traveling through time. |
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April 26th, 2007, 03:06 PM
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| I've seen iProtector, another solution is to create virtual disks with encoding (use Disk Utilities for that).
__________________ My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" with MacOS X 10.5.1. My Apples are here. My oldest Apple was born in 1977. Surf my .mac web site. GS/P/>SS d-(++) s+: a+ C+(C) U* P L+ E--- W++ N- o+ K? w O-- M++ V PS+ PE+ Y- PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv-- b+++ DI++ D+ G e+++ h---- r+++ y? Time is not changing, I'm just traveling through time. |
