My laptop was stolen.

Re:My laptop was stolen. by nickb on Sunday November 25, 2007 @10:17PM (#83457)

I use Filevault. Never had ANY issues with it so far. My password is also pretty strong (10 alphanumeric characters with punctuation sprinkled) so I doubt anyone would get much out of trying to crack it.

Everyone who travels with their laptop should use some kind of an encrypted FS if their data is worth anything.

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Re:My laptop was stolen. by cratuki on Monday November 26, 2007 @04:37AM (#83530)

> Never had ANY issues with it so far.

It requires far more HDD space than not using it because it doesn't seem to clean up after itself for a while. And if you get low on hard disk space your system grinds to a halt.

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Re:My laptop was stolen. by nickb on Monday November 26, 2007 @01:40PM (#83641)

I dumped all of the non-important stuff (videos, music etc) into /Users/Shared and use Filevault only for dev and the size of it is fairly small. I haven't noticed any of the things you mentioned...

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Re:My laptop was stolen. by dcurtis on Monday November 26, 2007 @04:44PM (#83719)

Leopard fixes this. When you log out, it "recovers" disk space and cleans itself up.

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Re:My laptop was stolen. by BitGeek on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @04:42AM (#83875)

Actually, all versions of filevault have done this.

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Re:My laptop was stolen. by BitGeek on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @04:43AM (#83876)

Just let it clean up when you log out....

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