Grant,
Thanks. Good idea on the 1Password (have started storing similar information there too). But your tip about Keychain was very clear and now I understand it. So will do the job this weekend.

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On 10/23/2016 7:13 PM, Grant wrote:
If you encrypt your Time Machine drive, you can store the password in 1Password 
for your own reference. However, 1Password won’t be able to unlock the drive 
for you. That’s not really a huge deal though because you can store the 
password in the Mac’s keychain. This means your drive will be unlocked 
automatically and you won’t be prompted for the password again unless you 
connect the drive to a different computer or the keychain is erased.

I have both the drives I use for Time Machine encrypted, and can vouch for it 
being easy and convenient. Once the drive’s unlocked it’s totally transparent, 
so you can access files from your backups just as you did before.

Grant

On Sunday October 23, 2016, at 4:34:49 PM, E.T. <[email protected]> 
wrote:

  I am considering taking this step which means wiping the current TM drive. So 
before I do this, I wish to know if one can still access files in the backups.

  Also can 1Password work with this? So many passwords these days.

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