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Title: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: mayersj1 on September 30, 2015, 04:17:53 PM
Noticed that Espionage wasn't showing up in my menubar after updating to El Capitan today.  The process showed up as running in Activity Monitor, but I'm unable to interact with it.

Any issues that I missed in the forums or blog?

Thanks,
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on October 01, 2015, 11:54:20 AM
Hello our testings so far showed no problems.

Try to login with guest account and launch Espionage see if that will make it show up...

Thanks

Zsolt
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: mayersj1 on October 01, 2015, 11:56:09 AM
All is working now. Oddly enough a second reboot fixed the issue. Thanks!
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on October 01, 2015, 11:59:05 AM
If not the second, then the third :-), just a joke.

Thanks for letting me know.

Rgds
Zsolt
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: wimax on October 01, 2015, 02:32:40 PM
I am actually getting a pop-up whenever I start (I've rebooted 3 times  :-\).  I can't figure out how to add the image of the pop-up but here's what it says:

   ERROR
   Couldn't establish communications with iSpy. Error 1.
   Try restarting  your computer and/or running
   Espionage.  EspionageHelper will quit now.
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on October 01, 2015, 10:49:25 PM
Hello, the error you mention is Espionage 2 related. You did not completely uninstall it.

You can manually remove all the files, here is a list:
Note that some files are in your home Library folder and some in your root Library folder. Your home Library folder is hidden since Lion, to enter into it from Finder, switch to Finder, hold down the option key and select Library from the list of "places to go".:

/Users/[your username]/Library/Application Support/Espionage
/Users/[your username]/Library/LaunchAgents/com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper.plist
/Users/[your username]/Library/Services/EspionageMenu.service (might not exist)
/System/Library/Extensions/iSpy.kext
/Library/iSpy
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.ispyd.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.Espionage.plist (might not exist)
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.taoeffect.Espionage (might not exist)

once you removed the files/folder, please reboot your Mac

Let me know if you get stuck.

Zsolt
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: wimax on October 02, 2015, 07:58:19 AM
Oh, I see.  Well, thank you for assisting Zsolt.

The only files I could find and delete were:

/System/Library/Extensions/iSpy.kext
/Library/iSpy
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.ispyd.plist

I can't seem to figure out how to do that trick you are mentioning about holding down the option key.  When do I hold it down and where is "places to go"?  Sorry.

NEVERMIND!  I Googled how to find this folder and found a helpful link (see below) then I was able to remove the first 3 files you mention and I'm fine now.  Thank you again.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2057221/how-to-view-the-library-folder-in-mavericks.html 
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: Teapot6761 on January 21, 2016, 10:09:31 PM
I'm also having this problem:
ERROR
   Couldn't establish communications with iSpy. Error 1.
   Try restarting  your computer and/or running
   Espionage.  EspionageHelper will quit now.

I've tried deleting the files suggested by zsolt as above, but could only find some of them.  I've rebooted 3 times and still get this same message.  Any ideas what I can try to get Espionage working for me again?  Thank you!

Edited to add:  I tried reinstalling it but still getting error messages :/
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on January 21, 2016, 11:06:11 PM
Hello,

can you please open terminal and paste each of the following commands one by one and hit enter after each one, then send me the complete output.

cd
ls -l ./Library/Application Support/Espionage
ls -l ./Library/LaunchAgents/com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper.plist
ls -l ./Library/Services/EspionageMenu.service
ls -l /System/Library/Extensions/iSpy.kext
ls -l /Library/iSpy
ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.ispyd.plist
ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.Espionage.plist
ls -l /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.taoeffect.Espionage

and note, once you removed the files, you do not reinstall. Espionage 2 will not work with OS X Maverick or newer, you will have to use Espionage 3 if you want to protect your files.

Rgds
Zsolt
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: Teapot6761 on January 22, 2016, 05:19:52 AM
Last login: Fri Jan 22 08:13:12 on ttys000
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ cd
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l ./Library/Application Support/Espionage
ls: ./Library/Application: No such file or directory
ls: Support/Espionage: No such file or directory
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l ./Library/LaunchAgents/com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 wendyasea  staff  549 Jan 22 00:09 ./Library/LaunchAgents/com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper.plist
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l ./Library/Services/EspionageMenu.service
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 7 wendyasea  admin  238 Jan  9  2014 Contents
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l /System/Library/Extensions/iSpy.kext
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root  wheel  170 Jan 22 01:13 Contents
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l /Library/iSpy
total 344
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel    1158 Aug  2  2013 Readme.rtf
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root  wheel  170832 Aug  2  2013 ispyd
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.ispyd.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel  548 Aug  2  2013 /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.ispyd.plist
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.Espionage.plist
ls: /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.Espionage.plist: No such file or directory
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$ ls -l /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.taoeffect.Espionage
ls: /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.taoeffect.Espionage: No such file or directory
Wendys-iMac-6:~ wendyasea$
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on January 22, 2016, 02:40:18 PM
OK, sorry, I could have write the commands better, some errors are due to space in the path, and some folders do not contain files, just subfolders and the output is somewhat confusing, but if I'm not mistaken, some of those files are present...
./Library/LaunchAgents/com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper.plist
./Library/Services/EspionageMenu.service
/System/Library/Extensions/iSpy.kext
/Library/iSpy
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.taoeffect.ispyd.plist

so this is what you have to delete, to open a folder in the finder, if you do not want to navigate using Finder, (because user Library folder is hidden) then you can paste the folder path into terminal preceded with open command and when you hit enter, it will open that folder in Finder, for example...fist write

cd

to go into your home folder and then simply do this for each path:

open "./Library/LaunchAgents/"

hit enter...

I hope this helps

Zsolt
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: Teapot6761 on January 22, 2016, 02:55:36 PM
I only had the first two on this list.  I deleted those but am still getting the same error message.  But do I understand from your previous email that I can't use Espionage 2 anyway -- that I have to have Espionage 3 for El Capitan?  And if so, is there an upgrade or do I just have to purchase Espionage3? 
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on January 22, 2016, 02:59:26 PM
If you wish we can do a remote session right now, but please hurry up as it is midnight over here. For Espionage 3 we can offer you 10% discount, at the time we released it, we informed all users and offered 50% discount but that one you missed.
if you wish to do the session, go to join.me URL, download the Mac client, click on start session (leave the radio button on one time code) and send me the 9 digits you get, I will connect and clean up those files for you, but as I said, pls be quick with sending me the session number
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: Emmanuel on March 10, 2016, 01:21:09 AM
Hello,

I just upgraded to El Capitan and I am facing the following issue:

1/ Setup:
- MacBook El Capitan
- Mac Mini El Capitan with Espionage (very last version through menu's check updates)
- LAN network
- Protected sparsebundle on Mac Mini's drive A
- Mac Mini's drive A root is shared with Macbook

2/ Issue:
- AFP protocol share, Espionage drive closed => sparsebundle + every files/folders appear on both Mac Mini and Macbook
- AFP protocol share, Espionage drive opened  => mounted disc appears in Mac Mini's Finder (with all its content), but not on connected Macbook (other files/folders appear on both sides)
- SMB protocol share, Espionage drive closed => sparsebundle + every files/folders appear on both Mac Mini and Macbook
- SMB protocol share, Espionage drive opened => mounted disc appears in Mac Mini's Finder (with all its content), but on connected Macbook when trying to browse the Mac Mini's share the Finder hangs, cannot be restarted and in the end I have to force restart OS X with the alim button

=> The unlocked Espionage drive cannot be accessed over the network. With AFP protocol it does not appear, with SMB the Finder crashes. Other shared folders work normally (including Time Machine). Everything was working on Mountain Lion (both MacBook + Mac Mini).

Thanks in advance for your support.
Emmanuel
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on March 10, 2016, 02:16:40 PM
Hello, let me test this further, I just did with Mini on 10.10 sharing root folder over afp, and MBAir on 10.11 and it works, so it seems it is the server side which creates problems.

I will let you know my results.

Rgds
Zsolt
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on March 10, 2016, 02:26:01 PM
Yes, if the server is 10.11 then it works as you described, let me check this with the dev team.
Rgds
Zsolt
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: Emmanuel on March 11, 2016, 12:43:21 AM
Thanks Zsolt for your quick reply/investigation.

Regards
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: greg on March 14, 2016, 12:58:27 AM
Hi Emmanuel, could you please try the suggestion described here (https://www.taoeffect.com/forum/index.php?topic=2837.msg6522#msg6522) and see if that works for you?
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: Emmanuel on March 17, 2016, 10:26:00 AM
Hello Greg, I will give it a try when I'm back to home on the next week.

Emmanuel
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: Emmanuel on March 21, 2016, 11:15:30 AM
Hello Greg,

Just tried: the Ignore ownership on this volume checkbox is already checked. I have then tried the chmod +rwx /path/to/your/encrypted/but/unlocked/folder as advised next in your post, too.

Back to my 2nd Mac, unfortunately the Finder still goes crazy when trying to access the share. The only way to recover is hard reset.

Emmanuel
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: greg on March 21, 2016, 05:23:05 PM
QuoteBack to my 2nd Mac, unfortunately the Finder still goes crazy when trying to access the share. The only way to recover is hard reset.

You said that the Finder only goes crazy when connecting over SMB, but do you now see it when trying to connect over AFP (using the regular 'File Sharing'?).

If you don't, I'm afraid there's not much we can do to solve this problem anytime soon, however there may be third-party solutions like ShareTool (https://www.bainsware.com/) (discontinued and now freeware (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26850/sharetool), but might still get the job done), or similar.
Title: Re: anyone seeing any issues after upgrading to El Capitan?
Post by: zsolt on March 21, 2016, 10:46:34 PM
Just to add my two cents...I was actually very surprised that this ever worked. When you connect to a shared folder, you are "mounting" the remote share onto /Volume/ folder on your local Mac. Espionage on the other hand works in a way that it mounts locally a disk image onto folder you picked as mointpoint.

Now, what you are trying to achieve is to access a local mount (the protected folder) through a remote mount (the shared folder), so no wonder it is freaking out :-)

I know this does not help you a lot and you will surely ask "but how come it worked so far", but obviously Apple did some slight changes in the AFP and SMB code which now you see the result of.

What I can offer you is to access the folder by accessing the disk image through the share and mounting it locally.

For this to work, you have to install Espionage on a local mac, share the folder in which the Espionage disk images are located (normally it is Library/Application Support/com.taoeffect3.Espionage/Data) and then import this disk image into the Local Espionage installation. Would that be interesting to you? If so, let me know and I will tell you how to do it.

Rgds
Zsolt