I see this posting goes way back to July, so I don't remember if I've ever seen
it before.
The problem with doing this sort of thing is that whenever the macOS Finder
checks the drive out, it will immediately install one or two invisible
folders/files (I think .DS_Store and .fseventsd) and
Pre-Mojave: It used to be if you had an external HDD or SSD (not the boot
drive) that Finder would allow you to do an "encrypt-in-place" on it in the
background.
Mojave and later: Finder allows me to *decrypt* a mounted & encrypted APFS or
Mac OS Extended drive, but the option to go the other
macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Is it possible to encrypt an external USB non-encrypted APFS SSD without
erasing the drive?
There used to be an option in the Finder where you could encrypt a drive (right
mouse click), but I don't see that anymore.
-Carl
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Pre-Mojave: It used to be if you had an external HDD or SSD (not the boot
drive) that Finder would allow you to do an "encrypt-in-place" on it in the
background. That option no longer shows up.
Mojave and later: Finder still allows me to *decrypt* a mounted & encrypted
APFS or Mac OS Extended
Thanks to all who responded...
I never knew Boot Camp Assistant could make bootable Windows flash drives!
Yes, this did the right thing. Very nice.
Thanks!
-Carl
> On Jul 26, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Macs R We wrote:
>
> When I've had to do this, I usually just have the originator (e.g., MS Media
Did you try totally obliterating whatever partitions are on the USB drive? I’ve
sometimes run into trouble where there was some oddity with the partition table
and macOS just errored whenever I tried creating something new. Open Terminal,
note the USB drive's device identifier (that is, disk5,
