I am running 10.13 on a 2012 MacPro5.1 tower.
Part of the instructions to upgrade to a metal-capable GPU and then Mojave include the need to turn FireVault off. Not knowing any better I innocently navigated to FileVault. It was off. Out of curiosity, and not knowing any better, I clicked 'Turn On', assuming there would be more information about what in involved. Little did I know that it would start an encrytion process that is impossible to stop or cancel. That was 3 days ago. The encryption has crawled to 50%. I am assuming that after another couple days it will have crawled to 100%. Then another week to decrypt (turn off)
Only after clicking on the button did I discover that there is no way to stop, pause, cancel, revert etc.
None of the suggested Terminal commands to stop or revert work.
I use my machine is a busy production environment, I was planning on upgrading the GPU and OS over the weekend. Now I have to wait a week (with luck) because I clicked on an option in System Preferences before doing careful online research? WTF?
The boot drive it is encrypting is 256gb SSD with 160gb free space.
Part of the instructions to upgrade to a metal-capable GPU and then Mojave include the need to turn FireVault off. Not knowing any better I innocently navigated to FileVault. It was off. Out of curiosity, and not knowing any better, I clicked 'Turn On', assuming there would be more information about what in involved. Little did I know that it would start an encrytion process that is impossible to stop or cancel. That was 3 days ago. The encryption has crawled to 50%. I am assuming that after another couple days it will have crawled to 100%. Then another week to decrypt (turn off)
Only after clicking on the button did I discover that there is no way to stop, pause, cancel, revert etc.
None of the suggested Terminal commands to stop or revert work.
I use my machine is a busy production environment, I was planning on upgrading the GPU and OS over the weekend. Now I have to wait a week (with luck) because I clicked on an option in System Preferences before doing careful online research? WTF?
The boot drive it is encrypting is 256gb SSD with 160gb free space.