removing encryption from apple encrypted flash drives

lapishater276 · 08-08-2014, 03:49 PM

When I had an apple computer, I encrypted 2 flash drives with backup files. I now want to put those files on my Linux partition on my new computer, but I cannot get through the encryption. Is there a piece of software on the Debian or Arch Linux repositories that can help me get into my flash drives?

jefro · 08-08-2014, 07:47 PM

My guess. http://superuser.com/questions/47807...-hfs-in-ubuntu

lapishater276 · 08-09-2014, 02:46 PM

Is there also a way to reformat the flash drives without decrypting them, because I cannot decrypt the flash drives

jefro · 08-09-2014, 03:23 PM

I'd think that to be the most easy thing.

Use either command line tools or get a gui application to delete partition and then create new partition(s) and format. It may be possible to just format it directly.

So, try to format it.

lapishater276 · 08-09-2014, 03:29 PM

What tools would be able to do the job?

jefro · 08-09-2014, 09:17 PM

Most disto's have more than a few tools. Some easy, some hard.

I think that maybe gparted would be a good one for you to try. It should be in or able to download. It's a graphical tool. It has a lot of other features than just partition and format. Remember, you usually can't partition a mounted drive.

EDDY1 · 08-09-2014, 10:42 PM

Sounds like lost password, is this the Case?
Are you sure that you don't just need hfs-utils?