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  • 1.  Can "Encryption Desktop" encrypt Mac OS formatted external drives?

    Posted Oct 15, 2015 11:06 AM

    Hello Symantec community!

    I can't get a straightforward answer anywhere and hope someone here might have the answer.

    I have several Thunderbolt external hard drives, all formatted Mac OS Journaled. The machine I'm on is a Mac Pro 6,1 running Yosemite. I installed the trialware of Encryption Desktop, but the only drives listed were the internal drives.

    Did I do/configure something wrong? Am I using the wrong software?

    Has anyone successfully encrypted an external Mac OS hard drive? I would go the FileVault route but the loss in disk speed (as minimal as it is) hinders video editing.

     

    Best,

    Jerome



  • 2.  RE: Can "Encryption Desktop" encrypt Mac OS formatted external drives?

    Posted Oct 16, 2015 11:02 AM

    Hi Jerome,

    Double check if corestorage is disabled on both internal and external HD

    https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO109622.html

     

    Also double check if the external HD has GUID Table (GPT) disks and not Apple Partition Map (APM).

    Encryption desktop does not support APM disks.

     

    Regards,

    Sarfaraz Rahman