HELP filevault

wozzerage · Feb 24, 2013, 11:41 PM

After restoring from a time machine back up to a new hard drive i now cannot access my file vault?! I only have one user account on my MBPro and i cant get into it using my password i just get ...

"You are unable to log in to the FileVault user account "...." at this time

Logging into the account failed because an error occurred."

Please help me!

justperry · Feb 25, 2013, 12:08 AM

Do you happen to have the home folder or ~/Home/Library folder on a different disk, if you the system lost it's connection to the keychain file.
A couple of months ago someone renamed his disk and got into the same problem as you have now.

Feb 24, 2013, 11:41 PM	#1
wozzerage macrumors newbie Join Date: Feb 2013	HELP filevault After restoring from a time machine back up to a new hard drive i now cannot access my file vault?! I only have one user account on my MBPro and i cant get into it using my password i just get ... "You are unable to log in to the FileVault user account "...." at this time Logging into the account failed because an error occurred." Please help me!
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Feb 25, 2013, 12:08 AM	#2
justperry macrumors 603 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: 7 Km South of an active upside down volcano.	Do you happen to have the home folder or ~/Home/Library folder on a different disk, if you the system lost it's connection to the keychain file. A couple of months ago someone renamed his disk and got into the same problem as you have now.
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