I Have an external 8T external hard disk on "encrypting" process since 10 days in my MAC ... and stuck in 27% ...  * Seagate with APFS. How can I stop the process and access to my info ?
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I accidentally turned off FileVault on my MacBook when trying to allow downloaded Canon driver software to be opened. FileVault is currently decrypting and I want to stop it as soon as possible. How do I stop FileVault decryption?
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I had a bit of problems in the recent months with the data I have on my External hard disk. I have large content in each folder.   If you think about it, it takes only two keys to delete a folder - del and enter. Is there anyway to protect files from accidental deletion?
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An external 3½" HDD seems to be in danger of failing — it's making .  I've acquired a replacement drive, and want to know the best strategy to get the data off of the dubious drive with the best chance of saving as much as possible.  There are some directories that are more important than others.  However, I'm guessing that picking and choosing directories is going to reduce my chances of saving the whole thing.  I would also have to mount it, dump a file listing, and then unmount it in order to be able to effectively prioritize directories.  Adding in the fact that it's time-consuming to do this, I'm leaning away from this approach.  I've considered just using dd, but I'm not sure how it would handle read errors or other problems that might prevent only certain parts of the data from being rescued, or which could be overcome with some retries, but not so many that they endanger other parts of the drive from being saved.  I guess ideally it would do a single pass to get as much as possible and then go back to retry anything that was missed due to errors.  Is it possible that copying more slowly — e.g. pausing every x MB/GB — would be better than just running the operation full tilt, for example to avoid any overheating issues?  For the "where is your backup" crowd: this actually is my backup drive, but it also contains some non-critical and bulky stuff, like music, that aren't backups, i.e. aren't backed up.  The drive has not exhibited any clear signs of failure other than this somewhat ominous sound.  I did have to fsck a few errors recently — orphaned inodes, incorrect free blocks/inodes counts, inode bitmap differences, zero dtime on deleted inodes; about 20 errors in all.  The filesystem of the partition is ext3.
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Mountain Lion allows one to encrypt any disk by right-clicking on the disk in the Finder and selecting Encrypt  from the contextual menu.  Is there anyway to check on the progress of this encryption process?
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I have an external hard drive, changed some security settings of files, and now I am not able to access them in my other system. I am an admin in this system.  Is there any tool that can reset all of the security settings of all contents to default?
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I looked at the details provided in  my system report/storage and I noticed that it appears I have a hard drive of 499.05GB and an additional SSD drive of 499.42GB. Does this mean I have 1TB of data? I only have 139GB available so do I have 500GB 'hiding' somewhere? (If so where??)  I am unsure how to interpret this information- why does it list both storage types? Is it duplicating the information?     Macintosh HD:      Available:    139.8 GB (139,800,666,112 bytes)   Capacity: 499.05 GB (499,046,809,600 bytes)   Mount Point:  /   File System:  Journaled HFS+   Writable: Yes   Ignore Ownership: No   BSD Name: disk1   Volume UUID:  EF0908C8-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX80333709         Logical Volume:  Revertible:  Yes (unlock and decryption required)   Encrypted:    Yes   Encryption Type:  AES-XTS   Locked:   No   LV UUID:  8CC9C88D-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX2002329B        Logical Volume Group:   Name:    Macintosh HD   Size:    499.42 GB (499,418,034,176 bytes)   Free Space:  18.9 MB (18,903,040 bytes)    LVG  UUID: EE040070-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXA83B309         Physical Volumes:      disk0s2:     #is this a second disk?      Device Name:  APPLE SSD SM0512G   Media Name: APPLE SSD  SM0512G   Media   Size:   499.42 GB (499,418,034,176 bytes)   Medium Type:  SSD    Protocol:  PCI    Internal:  Yes   Partition Map Type: GPT(GUID Partition Table)  #does this mean its partitioned?   Status: Online   S.M.A.R.T. Status:  Verified   PV UUID:    A1391405-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXX2E8FCDF3
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My hard drive died in my macbook and it no longer will start up. It will not mount in an external enclosure but disk utility is still reading that the hard drive is there, and I tried to repair disk and I am getting this error: (Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.) So my question is how do I backup my files if the hard drive won't mount? The only way that I have been able to see the hard drive is through disk utility. I just want to be clear that I am using mac os x snow leapard.
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I'm planning on selling a USB external hard drive that currently contains an old Ubuntu installation with stored passwords and banking information.  How can I securely erase the drive before selling it?
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My hard drive is a mess and I want to reformat it and do a fresh install of 16.04. My problem is I only have access to the HDD via 16.04 on a USB stick and although I can navigate to the various folders, nothing I do allows me to copy to an external hard drive. The folders are not encrypted. I also have a small swap partition - I would like to preserve the data on that too if possible.  Here's a listing of the home directories on the drive:  ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ ls -l /media/*/*/home /media/ubuntu/0e228f65-dac7-435f-828b-1eb1a6c3f29a/home: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 46 1000 1000 4096 Dec 21  2015 simon  /media/ubuntu/db79a6d1-7c6c-4d8c-822b-ba6ccd1ddecd/home: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 27 1000 1000 4096 Apr 17  2014 simon  /media/ubuntu/ebe2a6ba-9cb5-4279-8352-5082b8dd4d5e/home: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 39 1000 1000 4096 Aug  3 14:21 simon
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Hi I'm trying to access my home directory on my laptop hard drive through a live usb. I cannot boot into the OS on the hard drive and the home and root directory is encrypted. I have the encryption key but when I try to run the tool to gain access it pops up for a second then disappears and when I run the command in Terminal it says "Encrypted private directory is not setup properly". What are my options on getting into the directory? I really need to get the data off my laptop.
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I've been a Windows power user/administrator and professional tech for years, I just made the decision to go Linux, and wow, what a difference.     Is there any decently easy way to encrypt external volumes (i.e. USB keys, external hard drives, memory sticks, etc.) that works under Ubuntu 14.04?
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I have asked this question before ( and  )  My problem is that my Self Encrypted Disk (SED) have to NOT spin down even on suspend!  I have tried , but it did not work and the disk spin downs anyway !  The problem is that if the disk spins down, because it is on suspend, it does not show the "de encryption" prompt, and boots back up on RAM, but crashed due to IO error on the disk! (that's what the disk is suposed to do !)  Anyone on how to NOT (as in NEVER) spin down a HDD ? (yes this goes against all logic but this particular case)   Thanks a lot !  Would that be useful ?   sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda [sudo] password for xqua:   /dev/sda:  ATA device, with non-removable media     Model Number:       ST500LT015-9WU142                            Serial Number:      W0VBZQQ7     Firmware Revision:  0001SDM7     Transport:          Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6 Standards:     Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029)      Supported: 8 7 6 5      Likely used: 8 Configuration:     Logical     max current     cylinders   16383   16383     heads       16  16     sectors/track   63  63     --     CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064     LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455     LBA48  user addressable sectors:  976773168     Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes     Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes     Logical Sector-0 offset:                  0 bytes     device size with M = 1024*1024:      476940 MBytes     device size with M = 1000*1000:      500107 MBytes (500 GB)     cache/buffer size  = 16384 KBytes     Form Factor: 2.5 inch     Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 5400 Capabilities:     LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)     Queue depth: 32     Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum     R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 1   Current = 1     Advanced power management level: 254     Recommended acoustic management value: 208, current value: 0     DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6           Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns     PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4           Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features:     Enabled Supported:        *    SMART feature set        *    Power Management feature set        *    Write cache        *    Look-ahead        *    Host Protected Area feature set        *    WRITE_BUFFER command        *    READ_BUFFER command        *    NOP cmd        *    DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE        *    Advanced Power Management feature set             Power-Up In Standby feature set        *    SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up             SET_MAX security extension        *    48-bit Address feature set        *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set        *    Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE        *    FLUSH_CACHE_EXT        *    SMART error logging        *    SMART self-test        *    General Purpose Logging feature set        *    WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT        *    64-bit World wide name        *    IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD        *    Write-Read-Verify feature set        *    WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command        *    {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands        *    Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE        *    Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)        *    Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)        *    Native Command Queueing (NCQ)        *    Host-initiated interface power management        *    Phy event counters        *    Idle-Unload when NCQ is active             Device-initiated interface power management        *    Software settings preservation        *    SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set        *    SCT Write Same (AC2)        *    SCT Features Control (AC4)        *    SCT Data Tables (AC5)             unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)        *    reserved 69[4]        *    reserved 69[7] Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000c5006a036439     NAA     : 5     IEEE OUI    : 000c50     Unique ID   : 06a036439 Checksum: correct
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I have an external hard drive and I did something which I shouldn't have done, and I am annoyed that many files are prompting me about Administrator permissions to move a folder.  They are regular files.  How do I reset all the permission on the external hard drive?
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I have got an external hard disk TOSHIBA 1TB USB 3, the permission is always READ ONLY.  fdisk -l (output) :  Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf2198b37     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2046   362369023   181183489    5  Extended /dev/sda3       362371072   976771071   307200000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda5            2048      976895      487424   83  Linux /dev/sda6          978944   362369023   180695040   83  Linux  Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xeba6fb57     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1           16065   312576704   156280320    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdb5           16128   312573708   156278790+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525167 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x297c35de     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdc1              63  1953520064   976760001    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   How can I change the owner and permission of this hard drive ?
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I have already had the same problem before. On that occasion, I found a program that could scan my entire hard drive for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the program. It had to access the hard drive data directly, normal searches won't get any data from the hard drive before formatting.
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Is there a way (eg. a binary hack into Finder) to stop it from creating .DS-Stores on LOCAL Volumes?   I am using Leopard, therefore these don't work:    (requires Lion)  (requires Snow Leopard)   Also,  slows down my computer.
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Okay here is my situation, I have a 1tb internal hard drive that is plugged in via USB Dock, and has external power, that I use for weekly backups, but my question is, is it better to leave this hard drive on all the time, or turn it it off manually when it is not being used? What is the best case scenario?