You encrypt disks with the diskutil command, but first, you have to convert them to a format called CoreStorage. I tried this method and it didn’t appear to work properly so I used the Terminal approach. You’ll have to enter the password a second time, and you won’t be able to go any further unless you also enter a password hint. Choose Encrypt "disk name" and enter a password. I then used Migration Assistant to pull over all my Apps to the SSD boot drive.Ĭontrol-click on a disk in the Finder to encrypt to encrypt it (in a Finder window, the Finder sidebar, or on the Desktop). That all worked fine, and when I rebooted and logged in to my account, all my Users are on the Data HD. Obviously, for all permissions to work correctly you need to keep the new user names and passwords the same as the old ones. In the Users & Groups preference pane, I right-clicked on my account name and selected Advanced Options, and set the location of my user account to be my old user account on the secondary drive now named Data HD. I then set up my main user account with the same name and password as before. I left my old system in place on the old drive and did a clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on the SSD. Recently I became so sick of the slowness of my MacBook Pro (late 2011 model), which has a 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 with 16 GB RAM running Mountain Lion 10.8.2, that I decided to buy a 120 GB Kingston SVP 200 SSD drive for my boot drive and put my previous 500 GB Hitachi HD in place of the DVD drive.
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