This will remove password protection from the target drive. This is the primary method to turn off encryption and decrypt any external volume that has been encrypted using the built-in encryption tools on modern versions of Mac OS X and macOS. How to Turn Off Encryption and Decrypt External Drives on Mac FileVault does not encrypt external drives, and thus decrypting an external drive this way does not decrypt FileVault either (though you can disable FileVault in a separate process if you wanted to for some reason). It’s important to remember this process of decrypting external drives is entirely separate from using FileVault encryption on a Mac for the internal drive.
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