On my MacBook Pro Mid 2015 running macOS High Sierra I was trying to encrypt it using FileVault.
I can’t tell if progress is stuck or just moving very, very, very slowly
What are ways I can get the encryption to continue, or just cancel the encryption and decrypt the drive?
Best Answer
You can check the status from the terminal with
diskutil cs info /Volumes/<name>
and look forConversion State
andLV Conversion Progress
. If you want to cancel the encryption withdiskutil cs revert /Volumes/<name>
Oh, and if you're using APFS (new in High Sierra), the commands are
diskutil apfs list
anddiskutil apfs decryptVolume /Volumes/<name>
Then you can wait 15 minutes and check again. The conversion should continue and might go faster if you log out or just restart your machine and don’t log back in.
There’s no need to reinstall the operating system in almost all cases. You may need to leave the machine running for a day or two if for some reason it’s not progressing at a good rate. There also is no cancel. It needs to proceed or you could wipe the entire disk and reinstall everything.