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#1
How do i restore older files that were in backed up encrypted folders?? i understand time machine backs up the entire disk image of the encrypted folders and can locate the older disk image in the oldest time machine backup i have but when i try to restore it it says the image size is 118 gb,when the current disk  image for the same folder is also 118 gb. First off how can that make sense if i have deleted some of the data/folders from within the spare image itself,shouldnt the older disk image in time machine have a larger size?? and second, if i do want to restore some files from one of the encrypted folders, do i just click restore while in time machine to restore that folder's particular sparse image,then just unlock the folder as usual and the older files will be there?? Im very confused, with the way time machine works with latest versions of lion. it used to be so simple,you would click make backup,and then after you trashed something and needed it again,you could simply enter time machine browse to that same folders location in the past and grab the older files you needed. Now when you browse to that folder or any location in time machines past backups,the files are missing !!! How does this make sense??? How could they be removed from older backups as well as current disk status at the same time??? I cant figure out how to restore files like before. Every time i need something,like i said its missing from the older time machine backups. Very frustrating. Now with espionage,it seems it only backs up the disk spare image,so i guess my theory would be the only way to restore the older files,would be to restore the entire sparse image for the particular folder...right???

Thanks for your help
#2
Espionage 3 / Version 3.0 a HUGE step backward !!!
June 11, 2012, 09:58:54 AM
Along with myself are many many others who are very displeased with the latest version of Espionage as a whole. With its super buggy not launching at startup(although i have found a workaround) crashing after immediately entering the master password, not displaying folder content properly or size of folders not being updated properly,and instances of 2 epsionage apps running at the same time,which i only have one version installed which is version 3.0. I am the original person who fixed the initial release of the new version and posted it to macupdate.com to help the tons of mac users make the update/switch go smoothly since the original way was so flawed. I just dont see any advantages over the older version which after the last release/update was working perfectly! Why the hell did they decide to completely re-vamp the entire app from the ground up??? if it aint broke dont fix it!!! I am not alone with these angered views for the newest version of espionage. please take a look at the main mac app store page of comments or espionage 3 attached to this post. Nothing but angry people who miss the older version and its awesome coolness and stability instead of this new versions clunky and bugginess! Dont get me wrong,i absolutely love the developers and love the program as a whole,but it feels like it was rushed out and not tested barely at all. Also i had read on one of the forum posts that there was a major bug fix update coming soon almost 2 weeks ago,version 3.0.1, yet it has still not arrived on the mac app store or as a direct download on macupdate. If i was Tao Effect, i would simply revert completely back to the older version and contnue making that specific version better in anyway possible or just keep it the way it was and ditch the entire newest version.  :cry:
#3
Espionage 3 / NOT LAUNCHING AT STARTUP !!!
May 30, 2012, 09:18:06 PM
every few restarts of my imac,espionage 3 is NOT launching at startup,whereas as the older version would always ask for the master password and auto unlock the specified folders every-time i restarted my imac. and yes ,open automatically at login is checked off in the preferences!!! i could force it to launch every-time by adding it to my login items menu in my user accounts preferences in lion,but i never had to do that before and it always worked with the older version. just another bug in the newest version. I wonder if has to do with ispy kext not loading properly at startup??? please look into this. perhaps this will be fixed with the latest update 3.0.1 on the mac app store after it posts within the next few days???
#4
I finally removed all my previous encrypted folders from the older version of espionage and am now ready to go with the newer version. the older version has been successfully uninstalled and the newer version has been successfully installed and activated(lifetime) Now when i try to add the individual folders that had previously worked perfectly with the older espionage,i immediately get an error at the end of the copying script that says " Error during copy: "DocumentRevisions -V100" couldn't be moved because you don't have permission to access "Documents" could not copy all of Users/Justin/documents see system log for more.

I found the exact file it was talking about,it is an invisible file that the folder itself has a red minus symbol on it,as all of these kinds of hidden files generally do. I checked the permissions on the folder itself and it is a system file,that's why it is hidden. I can change the permissions but usually that causes huge weird problems if you screw with stuff like that. Again thats why it is a hidden file used by the system. What the heck is going on bc im sure the older version of espionage copied that file/s as well when making the secure sparseimage of that particular folder before with no errors like this until now. Should i attempt a repair permissions command in disk utility/onyx/cocktail?? Although that usually does nothing in these situations and it always finds the same permissions corrupt or bad and says it fixed them. Has been happening on mac os x for over 10 years now. Please reply with insight on this error ,i can understand very easily what to do or whats going on. I know a lot about macs and actually repair all systems for my friends. But crap like this i am have no clue. Thank you in advance. I hope this gets fixed or it will be useless to me if i cant encrypt my documents folder,which has all of my important everything!!!
update: i just successfully encrypted my entire iTunes folder as i did with the older espionage and it seems to be working as it should without that permissions error. maybe its just something specific to the documents folder,although there are a ton of those "-V100" folders on the system,i am sure i will run into this problem again while continuing to encrypt the rest of the folders i want to.

also how do you set the individual settings and passwords for each individual folder chosen?? i loved the way the old one had different settings for each. there is no way to set the encryption method with this 3.0 version,before i choose from 128-256 bt and could set whatever passwords i wanted to. Now it only lets you create a group of folders which sounded like the same thing except again no way to set the security level(128/256 bt) and it wont let me use my same password for all of them.