[Daracle]

I was thinking maybe I should, Me having a laptop and people at work using it and stuff....Might be a good idea

I do know of the warning that if you forget your password then you will lose your files, but I am not too worried about forgetting my password

Who else uses this feature and what do you think?
Does it slow anything down or anything else I should know?

[ManOfSteal]

I don't use it; however, I know there is quite a few topics on this already in the past you may want to search for...

[Randman]

I only use an encrypted disk for sensitive stuff, copies of passwords, work-related stuff, etc. Having 4.7GB of encryption is about the most I need.

[VValdo]

Has worked fine for me for about a year now... one thing to be aware of is a potential security hole where your password may be stored in cleartext in the swapfile.

This received much discussion a few weeks ago (look for a thread in this forum) and to my knowlege has not yet been fixed.

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[Daracle]

I did read about that swapfile issue...
I think I will just leave it for now

Thanks guys.

[PubGuy]

I've been using file vault on my first generation G4-400 PowerBook for over a year.

No problems whatsoever!

I use it to keep my home directory protected in case the laptop is stolen. In addition, I've also setup an encrypted disk image containing other information that I need to reference occasionally, but didn't see the sense of having all that static data stored in my home directory. It also makes it easier to sync with my desktop since the images more closely reflect the way my desktop system is laid out.

Lots of piece of mind knowing your personal, private and corporate data is secured with 128-bit encryption in case you laptop is lost or stolen. Once I turned on the file vault and got used to it, it really did make me more comfortable taking the laptop on the road with me.

I have not noticed ANY slow down due to file vault, and that's on a G4-400 with 320 MB RAM and 10.3.5. YMMV

[GORDYmac]

I use it. I have a lot of 'sensitive' material in my main account, so I like knowing that those contents are 'safe' from target disk mode.

[leperkuhn]

Originally posted by Daracle:
I did read about that swapfile issue...
I think I will just leave it for now

Thanks guys.

remember someone has to have root access to the machine to actually read the swapfile, which is cleared on restart...

[TETENAL]

Originally posted by leperkuhn:
remember someone has to have root access to the machine to actually read the swapfile, which is cleared on restart...

It's not cleared in FireWire target disk mode, and that's what a thief would use to first look at the disk contents of a stolen notebook.

[typoon]

Originally posted by TETENAL:
It's not cleared in FireWire target disk mode, and that's what a thief would use to first look at the disk contents of a stolen notebook.

Well only if they are Mac Savvy they would.

[Toyin]

I don't use filevault because of this problem that I had.

Basically once your homefolder uses more than 1/2 the disk space you can get into trouble if you want to disable filevault or move large files around. I also noticed a definite speed hit on iTunes when changing files (like adding art, or changing bpm...etc).

For secure files, I simply use an encrypted disk image. I've set it up so that I've replaced the actual files with an applescript that automatically tries to mount the disk and then launches the file after I've entered the password.

[plugh]

I recently upgraded my 600mhz iBook's hard drive. When copying across approx 60GB of data with the iBook as a firewire target disk, I found that with filevault on the ibook on, the time was about 2 hours, with filevault off about 30 minutes.