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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 ...

plutil - is a very useful tool to decode and encode the plist files on OSX system. The tool can be used decode the plist file to human readable format in Terminal which would help user to edit the plist files in terminal using vim or nano etc. plutil -convert xml1 [path_to_the_plist_file] The above command will decode the plist file to a readable xml format in command line. plutil -convert binary1 [path_to_the_plist_file] The above command can be used encode back the file to original binary format from command line.