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All sorted now...

I was forced to change the home account name on the new mac when transferring data across, because I had already created an account with my usual account name/short name.

Espionage (and many other programs) clearly didn't like this- presumably because data wasn't found where the app was expecting it. I managed to change the account name of the newly migrated account afterwards and all seems to be working fine now

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Thanks for responding.

I've moved everything over to new mac. Espionage doesn't appear in menu bar or load automatically at login. When I open it from applications, it says its looking for Espionage helper but then times out as it can't find it. I did restart the computer after migration and have just done the same again but no luck.

The encrypted folders themselves have 3 blank folders in them : This folder contains encrypted data etc....

Should i uninstall and then reinstall espionage or try something else?

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I have espionage on existing macbook. Is it possible to transfer data to new macbook using migration assistant? Is there anything particular I need to do first, apart from lock all folders? Is it better to disable encrypted folders first?

Thanks

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I'd also like to be able to unlock all folders from Espionage itself (in addition to unlocking all at log in)

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Thanks for the response. Still trying to get my head round the whole backup/restore possibilities.

You mentioned above that I could set Dropbox to be the backup destination of the espionage built in backup facility. Will this be secure? I read in this blog that Dropbox does not provide end-to-end encryption. Will this be an issue if I just set the backup destination of espionage backups to be my dropbox folder?

I have quite a lot of space on my mobileme idisk, can I set this to be the backup destination?

Thanks for your reply.

One more question. Will i be able to access different versions of a document that has been encrypted with espionage and backed up directly to Time Machine (with the relevant folder in the same locked state each time)?

Would it just be a case of unlocking the folder with espionage and then going back through the Time Machine history to select/restore the relevant document? Or is it more complicated than that?

Thanks for responding.

There are zero disadvantages to using Time Machine in addition to Espionage's backups, even if you're changing the state of the locked folder in between backups. The more backup paths you have, the better. :-)

Are there any issues then if I continue to backup once daily with Time Machine & SuperDuper with the encrypted folders in the same state each time?

One thing they can't provide though is a backup history on their own, but you can get it by using Time Machine to backup the Espionage backup destination, or, if you use Dropbox, you can set the backup destination to be in there, and then you'll have a history and it will be backed up online.

How would I set this up? Set the espionage backup location to be on my internal Macbook drive and then ask Time Machine to back up this espionage backup?

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I'm new to espionage and liking it very much so far. However, a little confused by backups etc.
Prior to espionage, I was backing up with both Time Machine & SuperDuper to separate hard drives on a once daily basis. I have read the backing up to Time Machine post but still have a few questions....

Is the main issue with Time Machine backups due to the locked/unlocked state of the relevant folder? For example, are there any disadvantages to using Time Machine to continue with backing up as usual, if the relevant folder is in the same state each time?

Does SuperDuper also handle things the same way?

What are the disadvantages to using the built in backup in espionage?
Can I backup to the same physical drives that I'm backing up to with TimeMachine and SuperDuper?

Thanks