Kitchen Sink w/sprayer hoseemwJan 7, 10:07 AMIn general, FileVault is useless, IMHO. You are better off using Disk Utility to create a password protected Disk Image and storing personal information there. As for optimizing - I don't know if you can force it to optimize, but it should ask you again if you logout/shutdown.under the kitchen sink.Apple OCApr 20, 07:47 PMDarn ... I never took my