On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:36 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 Oct 2013, at 18:13 , Jean-Christophe Helary > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I use an encrypted external disk as my Time Machine backup. > > I had enough problems with an encrypted TM backup that I wiped it and started > over with an unencrypted disk. > >> Starting yesterday, I get the "Enter the password to unlock the disk" dialog >> but when I enter the password the dialog stays there, without reacting and >> won't go away. All the buttons are greyed out and I can only move the dialog >> around. > > Yeah, that happened to me as well. I tried various things, but none worked.
After forgetting about the ghost dialog for a while, it eventually transformed into a (I don't remember clearly) "I can't fix this disk, copy your files for backup etc." Here it was, OSX was attempting to fix the thing but did not tell me anything about it. So I used Disk Utility to erase the disk, and it is now working again as an encrypted Time Machine disk... Jean-Christophe Helary _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
