![]() ![]() Once the padlock is unlocked, click on the Advanced button.Įither remove the checkmark from “Log out after xx minutes of inactivity” or set the time frame to a longer period to meet your needs. In the System Preferences window, select the Security & Privacy preference pane.įrom the Security & Privacy preference pane, click the Lock icon and enter your administrator credentials. To correct the phantom logouts, launch System Preferences, either by clicking on its Dock icon, or by selecting System Preferences from the Apple menu. (If you’re being logged out from time to time, it may be because the Log out option, shown above, has been set during the installation of macOS High Sierra.) Instead, the upgrade process may have enabled two security options that you may not have been using before. If you find yourself occasionally being logged out of your Mac after you upgraded to macOS High Sierra, you can stop worrying your Mac isn’t possessed. Our recommendation is not to encrypt your external drive, unless converting to APFS is acceptable to you, and you have no plans to use the drive with earlier versions of the Mac operating system. In either case, the external drive won’t be recognizable by the older operating system. The problem comes about should you ever connect the drive to a Mac running an earlier version of the Mac operating system, or if you boot your Mac to an earlier version of the OS. ![]() If these two conditions are met, and you select the option to encrypt the drive, by right-clicking the drive icon and selecting Encrypt from the popup menu, the drive will be converted to APFS format and then encrypted.Įven though the drive has been converted to APFS and encrypted, it will continue to work just fine with your Mac running macOS High Sierra.
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