On 03/28/2016 06:05 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > Update: Another oddity was that the “automatic login” feature under > Users & Groups was grayed out, so I couldn’t choose it. By Googling > “automatic login,” I discovered that automatic login is disabled if > FileVault is active on an account. I had forgotten that I’d turned it on > a couple of months ago. I turned off FileVault and now see both users > when I start up and am able to set automatic login and am able to boot > into the account of the user that was not letting me do so before. > Problem (temporarily?) solved.
I'd guess when you turned off FileVault, a lot of stuff had to be rewritten on the drive while the decryption occurred. This especially includes things like the directory structure and VTOC. If these were messed up before, the rewriting might have cleaned things up. I'd still run Disk Warrior on the device because this points even more to drive problems. By the way, I run FileVault on all my Macs and have never had a problem for which I could blame it. I think it's especially important to use it on laptops. It's even a nice layer of security on a desktop machine. If somebody manages to compromise your machine over the network, they still can't read your stuff, unless they have your account password. Even root access won't let them see private files.
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