Hello,
Is there any way to retrieve a password for an encrypted folder or force it open? How about a force uninstall of Espionage? Here is the story...
I disabled Espionage 2 when I upgraded to Lion months ago. It seems as though I made a copy of my Mail folder from what Espionage had and carried on. Occasionally I would see an Espionage error when I closed Mail stating that it "couldn't encrypt the folder", but all was working fine regardless. I assumed that it was a lagging detail for the old Mail folder and just didn't have time to dig into it. Yup, my goof. Yesterday I updated several items via Apple's Software Updater and received a few error messages stating something about "corrupt extensions, contact third party for updates", but thought that I would deal with it later. When I rebooted, Mail wouldn't open. A message via the Console states:
"EspionageHelper: WARN (event_handler_for_assoc:598): denying Mail launch because we don't have any records!"
Upon opening Espionage (version 2.8.13), I immediately get the unlock screen. My password doesn't work. Now, I have another secure storage of such passwords and I am indeed using the one that I last used. I also follow a specific formula for all of my passwords in case I forget. Nothing is working. I am also unable to locate any reference to Espionage in Apple's Keychain Access.
If a password retrieval is not an option, how about a force uninstall of Espionage? All the reference I see on normal uninstalling requires a password first.
If all else fails, then I do have a backup, but it will be a few days before I can get back home.
More microchips than sense,
Dr. Z.
Is there any way to retrieve a password for an encrypted folder or force it open? How about a force uninstall of Espionage? Here is the story...
I disabled Espionage 2 when I upgraded to Lion months ago. It seems as though I made a copy of my Mail folder from what Espionage had and carried on. Occasionally I would see an Espionage error when I closed Mail stating that it "couldn't encrypt the folder", but all was working fine regardless. I assumed that it was a lagging detail for the old Mail folder and just didn't have time to dig into it. Yup, my goof. Yesterday I updated several items via Apple's Software Updater and received a few error messages stating something about "corrupt extensions, contact third party for updates", but thought that I would deal with it later. When I rebooted, Mail wouldn't open. A message via the Console states:
"EspionageHelper: WARN (event_handler_for_assoc:598): denying Mail launch because we don't have any records!"
Upon opening Espionage (version 2.8.13), I immediately get the unlock screen. My password doesn't work. Now, I have another secure storage of such passwords and I am indeed using the one that I last used. I also follow a specific formula for all of my passwords in case I forget. Nothing is working. I am also unable to locate any reference to Espionage in Apple's Keychain Access.
If a password retrieval is not an option, how about a force uninstall of Espionage? All the reference I see on normal uninstalling requires a password first.
If all else fails, then I do have a backup, but it will be a few days before I can get back home.
More microchips than sense,
Dr. Z.