3vj3 Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 So I've been able to install 10.7 and get everything working and now I want to transfer my filevault 1 encrypted home folder to my Lion install since filevault 2 won't work. I've read that I am still able to use it in Lion. Now here is the problem. My hard drive has some bad sectors now, so I cannot transfer the whole image. I already know the specific files. I have all the files backed up except those ones. So how should I go about this? Is there a way to create a filevault 1 home folder in Lion, then transfer all my files to it? Is there a way to do this in Snow Leopard on an external drive, then transfer it over? Or, will I have to install Snow Leopard on another hard drive, create the same account with a filevault home directory, transfer the files, then transfer it over to Lion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vj3 Posted October 6, 2011 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 Here is what I had to do. In order to use filevault 1 in Lion you have to install over a 10.6 install that already has a filevault account enabled. You cannot install lion over a regular account then transfer a filevault 1 sparsebundle over. You can open it but you cannot make that sparsebundle your Home folder. So I reinstalled 10.6 and enabled filevault, installed/upgraded 10.7, and copied over all my data to my new home older. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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