If you choose to store the password in the Keychain, then anyone who gains access to your unlocked Mac and can mount one or more volumes from the drive gains access as if the contents weren’t encrypted. Encrypting such drives is useful when you’re using them for storage and backups.Ī drive with volumes encrypted in this fashion is fully available when mounted and the password entered. If you forget this password, you will not be able to retrieve any data.Entire volumes can be encrypted directly, but then they cannot be used to start up a Mac, because of how FileVault and the startup elements on Macs interact. It is suggested to write down the password and store it in a safe and secure place just in case It is best practice to provide a hint to help in case the password is forgotten. Set a password, and enter a second time to verify the password.Type a name for the drive and select either OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) (Default) or OS X Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted) depending on your preferences.This is the lower, indented icon, as shown below and select Erase Select the drive partition to be encrypted.
Please follow this link for help: Answer ID 1362 How to access Disk Utility on macOS This method is data destructive because the drive erase feature within Disk Utility will be used. For more information refer to Apple article: Encrypt and protect a storage device with a password in Disk Utility on MacĪlternate method.FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, or MS-DOS (FAT) are not supported for encryption natively on a macOS PC.
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