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There might be a time where you want decrypt the FileVault encrypted mac, but you are facing issues in logging into Mac to perform decryption using system preferences. In such cases the following steps will help you in decrypting the disk using Recovery HD. Reboot the Mac, Go to recovery HD partition of the system. ( To start your computer from Recovery, restart your Mac and hold down the Command and R keys at startup.) Open Terminal application from Utilities -> Application.  First will need to identify the Logical Volume UUID of the encrypted drive using the  diskutil corestorage list  command:           diskutil corestorage list         4.   Once you have the UUID of the logical volume as shown in above picture, you can then either             unlock or decrypt the encrypted volume using the following commands.       a) Using ...

             There might be situation with FileVault where the OSX might not be booting normally or sometimes OS X does not allows you to erase or turnoff the encryption ( Performed using Disk Utility.app available with OS X installer ). This can be a problem with FileVault 2-encrypted volume which will not let you either unlock or decrypt it. In such cases the following method will help you in deleting the core storage( FileVault encrypted) volumes on the system. To perform this : Connect the OS X installer USB/Disk to Mac. Power on the Mac. Hold option key on keyboard and boot into OS X Installer. Open the Terminal.app from Utilities in OS X installer application. Run the following command to get the details about the FileVault encrypted volume.            diskutil cs list           This will show detailed information about the core storage volume available on the syste...