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I chose a 1T external drive for time machine and checked the 'encrypt backups' option. I thought it will only encrypt the backups, but as it seems it is now encrypting the whole drive which has quite some data on it and is not SSD ;). Is there a way to cancel the encryption process? I turned off Time Machine and chose another drive for it.
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Yes, in 10.9+ you can roll it back while its busy encrypting
You will then be promted with the OS X password unlock/decrypt dialog. After that it starts decrypting. The title_drive you can look up with diskutil list or ls -al /Volumes
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Check the status with
Look for 'Conversion Progress' and check if 'Conversion Direction:' is set to 'backward'
Restart.
Then reset pram with option+cmd+p+r.
Booting with cmd+r the utility disc (I have a macintosh HD and one partition encrypted (the one with encoding paused)) >select the partition encrypted>click file and unlock>repair the partition disk>repair permission on partition>repair Macintosh HD.Restart. Turn off conversation view owa.
The encryption will be resumed.
protected by JakeGouldAug 26 '16 at 0:35
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