[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Hugh Glaser]

> On 2 Feb 2015, at 14:31, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 02/02/2015 14:18, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>> 
>> I decided the answer was no.
>> Of course, where business use requires it, I can keep another user that has encryption turned on - it is per user.
> I believe that was true of FileVault. FileVault 2 is whole disk encryption and so is not per-user.
Ah, I was wondering about that.
So, can I have second confirmation (in addition to Vladimiro) that someone has managed to recover a single file from a TM backup when using FV2 please?
Cheers
> 
> Jules.
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>>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 11:13, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> It's very obvious when it offers you to turn it on, not something you can easily miss at the end of the upgrade process.
>>> Not quite sure in what configurations it offers you FileVault yet. As you say, not all laptop upgrades offer it to you.
>>> 
>>> Jules.
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>>> On 02/02/2015 10:58, Nicholas Gibbins wrote:
>>>> Does it? I installed the update yesterday, and FileVault is still off.
>>>> 
>>>> Nick
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 09:55, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Beware if clicking through the 10.10.2 Yosemite update - by default it will turn on disk encryption.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tim
>>>>> 
>>> Jules
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> Jules
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