I'm currently trying to recover my formatted external hard drive with testdisk.
Testdisk takes forever to load on sudo on Mac Terminal, so I tried to approach it from a live Linux Distro, Gparted.
It works so, however it can't write to the Mac HFS+ Drive. At the moment I'm currently trying to partition a separate partition for testdisk to write the recovered files to, however FileVault is in the way.
FileVault is taking forever to finish, (~3 days) and so I followed this solution and got the following progress.
Logical Volume Family FA9F7FA6-0592-4361-A641-1DAE403816E0
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Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: AES-XTS
Conversion Status: Converting
Conversion Direction: -none-
Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: No
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+-> Logical Volume 21F83719-063D-40EC-8958-36FBD021EE78
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Disk: disk1
Status: Online
Size (Total): 998973898752 B (999.0 GB)
Conversion Progress: Paused
Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)
LV Name: Untitled 1
Volume Name: Untitled 1
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
Seems like it has started to revert, but it is paused and hasn't actually started the process. FileVault on the Settings pane now shows as paused.
How to make revert process continue?
EDIT:I forgot to mention, the Drive Untitled 1 Is my new 1Tb hard drive, which I have swapped out the Mac's original 500Gb drive. It is made by the same company, HGST, and had the same specifications. So there shouldn't be much capability problems.
Best Answer
The last step in the FileVault conversion process is to restart.