On Oct 27, 2005, at 3:32 PM, iMac List wrote:
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From: Mac the fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FileVault partition repair: help needed...
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:25:20 +0200
Dear all,
I have an Imac running latest Tiger revision.
I lately suffered a power outage and I lost my home partition. It was
under FileVault.
I tried to recover it with Apple Disk Tool with no success.
Is there a utility that works with Tiger that allows to recover/
rebuild or search for the
the data inside a damaged and FileVault protected image ? (I have the
password; I am
NOT talking about breaking security)
Do you have a recent backup of your Home Folder?
I do not use FileVault for fear of a universal problem. Data is
encrypted in one big block. The data files are not individually
encrypted. The only safety mechanism I know of from reading David
Pogue's The Missing Manual is to have at least two accounts on the Mac.
The Administrator's account and a User's account. In the user's
account, one can run FileVault, with the password precaution that you
mention. The Administrator can access the user's data by using a
special "Master" password. If you set up your Mac this way, try using
the Administrator's Master password from the Administrator's account.
If not, or if the Master PW does not work, I know of no solution.
Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
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