Comments on: FileVault Corruption http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/ RANDOMIZE USR 0 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:12:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Affordable Software http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-22250 Affordable Software Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:15:31 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-22250 <p>ouch, though this post is old I feel your pain. I got so upset with a similier issue that I'm now making software to stop and prevent such events.</p> ouch, though this post is old I feel your pain. I got so upset with a similier issue that I'm now making software to stop and prevent such events.

]]> By: schwa http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-22226 schwa Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:26:09 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-22226 <p>Hey Bruce,<br><br>I haven't used FileVault in years - since this blog post actually. Wish I could help but really - might be time to create a new user account and swap your files manually? I don't know.<br><br>Sorry.</p> Hey Bruce,

I haven't used FileVault in years – since this blog post actually. Wish I could help but really – might be time to create a new user account and swap your files manually? I don't know.

Sorry.

]]> By: Bruce Campbell http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-22225 Bruce Campbell Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:18:31 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-22225 <p>Oh boy, FileVault (I now call it VileFault) has become corrupt on my Leopard MBP, I found I couldn't log in to my normal working account, and I took the following steps to fix it:<br><br><ol><br><li>I logged into the admin account I have had set up on my machine since the beginning so I could do some diagnostics</li><br><li>Immediately ran DiskWarrior, which reported that all the files could be recovered, but that it couldn't write the repaired directory, as it detected a media fault (I guess this means the damaged sparseimage acts the same as a damaged HD), so I should immediately copy the files to another location.</li><br><li>I quickly got out my portable backup FireWire drive, plugged it in and copied the files to the backup disk</li><br><li>Tried several times to copy the sparseimage file to another backup disk, so that I could go back if this whole process doesn't work</li><br><li>When Finder copy didn't work, I tried using SuperDuper! to copy the sparseimage, but that failed as well.</li><br><li>In frustration, I trashed the sparseimage, emptied the trash, then copied the recovered file structure from the DiskWarrior run into the Users folder.</li><br><li>Attempted to log on to my normal account, and got the same message, "You are unable to log in to the FileVault user account "bmc" at this time" with the second line "Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred."</li><br></ol><br>Is that it? Is there any way to get the OS to "forget" about the FileVault status, and just deal with the recovered directory structure as if FileVault had never been turned on?<br><br>A couple of other pieces of information: <br><ul><br><li>Running Leopard 10.5.6 now, but upgraded from Tiger.</li><br><li>FileVault was implemented in Tiger (the old version of FV), and I didn't do the right thing when I upgraded.</li><br><ol><br><li>I should have done a full backup.</li><br><li>I should have turned FV off before the drive got too full to do it.</li><br><li>I should have done a clean install and migrate, rather than upgrading over Tiger.</li><br></ol><br></ul><br><br>Any assistance greatfully appreciated! This is both painful, and time consuming!</p> Oh boy, FileVault (I now call it VileFault) has become corrupt on my Leopard MBP, I found I couldn't log in to my normal working account, and I took the following steps to fix it:

<ol>
<li>I logged into the admin account I have had set up on my machine since the beginning so I could do some diagnostics</li>
<li>Immediately ran DiskWarrior, which reported that all the files could be recovered, but that it couldn't write the repaired directory, as it detected a media fault (I guess this means the damaged sparseimage acts the same as a damaged HD), so I should immediately copy the files to another location.</li>
<li>I quickly got out my portable backup FireWire drive, plugged it in and copied the files to the backup disk</li>
<li>Tried several times to copy the sparseimage file to another backup disk, so that I could go back if this whole process doesn't work</li>
<li>When Finder copy didn't work, I tried using SuperDuper! to copy the sparseimage, but that failed as well.</li>
<li>In frustration, I trashed the sparseimage, emptied the trash, then copied the recovered file structure from the DiskWarrior run into the Users folder.</li>
<li>Attempted to log on to my normal account, and got the same message, “You are unable to log in to the FileVault user account “bmc” at this time” with the second line “Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred.”</li>
</ol>
Is that it? Is there any way to get the OS to “forget” about the FileVault status, and just deal with the recovered directory structure as if FileVault had never been turned on?

A couple of other pieces of information:
<ul>
<li>Running Leopard 10.5.6 now, but upgraded from Tiger.</li>
<li>FileVault was implemented in Tiger (the old version of FV), and I didn't do the right thing when I upgraded.</li>
<ol>
<li>I should have done a full backup.</li>
<li>I should have turned FV off before the drive got too full to do it.</li>
<li>I should have done a clean install and migrate, rather than upgrading over Tiger.</li>
</ol>
</ul>

Any assistance greatfully appreciated! This is both painful, and time consuming!

]]> By: Visitor http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-22190 Visitor Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:46:19 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-22190 <p>My favorite remote backup tool for Mac or Windows is <a href="http://JundleDisk.com">JundleDisk.com</a> - highly secure, highly automatic, and very affordable. The service backs an encrypted copy of your data on Amazon S3 servers for about $0.15 per GB. I have FileVault enabled on my local machine and regularily perform a local backup of my data. But a remote backup is also essential.... <a href="http://Mozy.com">Mozy.com</a> is also a similar service but I have heard some mixed reviews. <a href="http://Carbonite.com">Carbonite.com</a> is coming out with a Mac client soon as well....</p> My favorite remote backup tool for Mac or Windows is JundleDisk.com – highly secure, highly automatic, and very affordable. The service backs an encrypted copy of your data on Amazon S3 servers for about $0.15 per GB. I have FileVault enabled on my local machine and regularily perform a local backup of my data. But a remote backup is also essential…. Mozy.com is also a similar service but I have heard some mixed reviews. Carbonite.com is coming out with a Mac client soon as well….

]]> By: matthew http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-22186 matthew Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:32:47 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-22186 <p>i have a similar problem. I enabled firevault on my main account and now when i log in, i get the spinning beach ball of death. i also seem to have a 210 gig home folder AND a 140 gig hard drive (total capacity.) Whenever I select it, it freezes up my computer. When i log in with another account, i look in my home folder and it is empty. Any suggestions?<br><br>P.S.: it is a network account</p> i have a similar problem. I enabled firevault on my main account and now when i log in, i get the spinning beach ball of death. i also seem to have a 210 gig home folder AND a 140 gig hard drive (total capacity.) Whenever I select it, it freezes up my computer. When i log in with another account, i look in my home folder and it is empty. Any suggestions?

P.S.: it is a network account

]]> By: schwa http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-6551 schwa Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:26:13 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-6551 <p>Hi Tom,</p> <p>I just dont risk my data by using FileVault any more... But thanks for the link - hopefully it'll prove useful to others.</p> Hi Tom,

I just dont risk my data by using FileVault any more… But thanks for the link – hopefully it’ll prove useful to others.

]]> By: schwa http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-21935 schwa Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:26:13 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-21935 <p>Hi Tom,<br><br>I just dont risk my data by using FileVault any more... But thanks for the link - hopefully it'll prove useful to others.</p> Hi Tom,

I just dont risk my data by using FileVault any more… But thanks for the link – hopefully it'll prove useful to others.

]]> By: Tom http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-6550 Tom Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:16:08 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-6550 <p>I ran into similar issues, and wrote up a howto on fixing it. Let me know if this works for you:</p> <p>http://ekettoz.blogspot.com/2007/02/filevault-how-to-verify-or-repair-home.html</p> I ran into similar issues, and wrote up a howto on fixing it. Let me know if this works for you:

http://ekettoz.blogspot.com/2007/02/filevault-how-to-verify-or-repair-home.html

]]> By: Tom http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-21934 Tom Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:16:08 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-21934 <p>I ran into similar issues, and wrote up a howto on fixing it. Let me know if this works for you:<br><br><a href="http://ekettoz.blogspot.com/2007/02/filevault-how-to-verify-or-repair-home.html">http://ekettoz.blogspot.com/2007/02/filevault-h...</a></p> I ran into similar issues, and wrote up a howto on fixing it. Let me know if this works for you:

http://ekettoz.blogspot.com/2007/02/filevault-h...

]]> By: schwa http://toxicsoftware.com/filevault_corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-21933 schwa Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:24:51 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/filevault_corruption/#comment-21933 <p>Well in my case the disk underlying the sparse image was corrupt. Copying the sparse image to anothe drive helped me deal with that. IIRC (this was a while ago) the sparse image could be mounted but some data was missing.</p> Well in my case the disk underlying the sparse image was corrupt. Copying the sparse image to anothe drive helped me deal with that. IIRC (this was a while ago) the sparse image could be mounted but some data was missing.

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