By Hally | Last Updated
In order to protect files in your thumb drive, you may lock the drive with BitLocker in your Windows computer. However, when you want to open a file of the BitLocker thumb drive on your Mac, you will find that the drive can't be read successfully, which makes you fail to access your wanted file. At that time, instead of giving up BitLocker encryption for your drive, you can try to use iSunshare BitLocker Genius which is an easy-to-use but powerful BitLocker reader for Mac to solve the problem.
Step 1: Get iSunshare BitLocker Genius and then install it on your Mac with simple clicks on the installation window. After it is installed successfully, you will see a pop-out wizard like the following screenshot and you can exit it by tapping Close button.
Step 2: Insert the BitLocker thumb drive into your Mac. As BitLocker encrypted drive can't be unlocked on Mac directly, a box will be shown to remind you the unreadable BitLocker thumb drive and you can hit Ignore button to close it.
Step 3: Open the BitLocker Genius and choose the BitLocker thumb drive. After that, click Unlock option in the upper panel of the user interface.
Step 4: There are two ways for you to choose to unlock your BitLocker thumb drive, including entering password and inputting recovery key. After selection, click Mount button to unlock the drive.
Step 5: Double-click the decrypted BitLocker thumb drive on your Mac desktop. And you can open files in it to use now.
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