My daughter's Mac is backed up on a Toshiba external drive. When her Mac died she borrowed a friend's to access her backup files and folders but all are password protected even though she could open them freely on her own Mac.
"External drive is readable on my Mac but password-protected on others: My daughter's Mac is backed up on a Toshiba external drive. When her Mac died she borrowed a friend's to access her backup files and folders but all are password protected even though she could open them freely on her own Mac."
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Getting this Data:
Have your friend create a new guest user on their Mac, and then use Migration Assistant to export data from the Time Machine Backup. See if you no longer get this.
Confirm the Encryption:
Open Disk Utility, and then elect the drive. See if you see the word "(Encrypted)", located at the far-right of the dulled-out line below the hard drive name.
Getting Into Disk Utility:
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External drive is readable on my Mac but password-protected on others
