Topic: Knox / ejecting encrypted disk

Thanks…Good Point.

Topic: Knox / ejecting encrypted disk

I’ve never seen the safe to remove message when dragging the encrypted volume to the trash. I get the warning every time. I created a vault on my startup drive and when trashing it i get no message at all (which is fine). I also created a vault on a usb thumb drive and when trashing it I get no message either.

After trashing the encrypted volume and running Disk Utility I see the manufacturers name in the drive list and underneath it the “name” (Knox Vault) listing grayed out.

Hope this helps.

Unrelated Idea: This is probably outside the scope of your intention with this program but it would be great if Knox could unmount a vault after a predetermined idle time.

Thanks.

Topic: Knox / ejecting encrypted disk

When either dragging an encrypted disk to the trash or clicking on it in the menubar list I get the message:

The Disk “name” needs to be ejected first before it is removed

Not sure what this means since the disk disappears from the desktop like you would expect. There doesn’t seem to be anything else really to do.

Topic: Knox / A couple of questions

Thanks for your help. The 500 GB drive took over 8 hours to encrypt. It seems to work fine. I would have done a strechable vault but I don’t want anyone to have access to the drive at all.

Topic: Knox / A couple of questions

I’m trying Knox 1.5 out and I have a couple of questions. I’ve never used encrypted volumes or FileVault before.

Is there a limit to the size of volume that can be encrypted? I’d like to “reformat a volume as an encryted vault” using an external 500 GB drive. It looks like its going to take about 5 hours to complete the formatting and I’d like to know that it will actually finish. (I’m about 1.5 hours in at this point).

Is there a performace hit when accessing files on an encrypted volume?

Thanks for your help.