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#11
Espionage 3 / Re: How to open an old databas...
Last post by zsolt - February 16, 2025, 11:29:56 AMHello, the sparsebundle on it's own is not enough. But if you have a backup of your home folder, then we should be able to find the rest what is needed.
Each protected folder needs 3 pieces of info:
1 the disk image which contains the data
2 the mountpoint folder which will be used to display the data
3 the Espionage database which contains the path to the first two, the name of the first two and the password of the disk image
So to make espionage recognise your folders you have to move all this data to a new machine.
The 1 and 3 are all in one folder:
yourhomefolder/Library/Application Support/com.taoeffect.Espionage3
On the backup disk, find the backup session you want to restore from (directly on the backup disk, not through time machine), the Libary folder will again be hidden, you select "Go" menu from the Finder's menus, and in the popup window start to type Library, Finder will fill it out for you till the end, just click OK and you will enter into the library, then again just continue till you find the com.taeoeffect.Espionage3 folder
Once you put this folder into the same path on the new Mac, launch Espionage and all your folders should be present in Espionage folder list.
It might still complain about missing mountpoint folders, then just create an empty folder for each protected folder, click onto small "i" near the folder name in Espionage folder list and use the mountpoint drop down menu to point Espionage to the newly created folder, after that it should start to work,
Let me know how it went,
Cheers
Zsolt
Each protected folder needs 3 pieces of info:
1 the disk image which contains the data
2 the mountpoint folder which will be used to display the data
3 the Espionage database which contains the path to the first two, the name of the first two and the password of the disk image
So to make espionage recognise your folders you have to move all this data to a new machine.
The 1 and 3 are all in one folder:
yourhomefolder/Library/Application Support/com.taoeffect.Espionage3
On the backup disk, find the backup session you want to restore from (directly on the backup disk, not through time machine), the Libary folder will again be hidden, you select "Go" menu from the Finder's menus, and in the popup window start to type Library, Finder will fill it out for you till the end, just click OK and you will enter into the library, then again just continue till you find the com.taeoeffect.Espionage3 folder
Once you put this folder into the same path on the new Mac, launch Espionage and all your folders should be present in Espionage folder list.
It might still complain about missing mountpoint folders, then just create an empty folder for each protected folder, click onto small "i" near the folder name in Espionage folder list and use the mountpoint drop down menu to point Espionage to the newly created folder, after that it should start to work,
Let me know how it went,
Cheers
Zsolt
#12
Espionage 3 / How to open an old database co...
Last post by charti - February 15, 2025, 06:18:58 PMMy old MBP just died. I have a backup copy of ".sparsebundle" but how to open it on my new MBP?
Thanks for any help.
Thanks for any help.
#13
Espionage 3 / Re: Immediate Auto Lock on Big...
Last post by zsolt - January 28, 2025, 01:11:13 PMHello Scott, I'm glad this did the trick. It is not 100% nice solution as we do not know what exactly the problem with the original folder was. Usually it is some kind of a permission problem. But the sudden unmount was never reported before. Failing to recover properly that yes.
But I can see that you understand it quite well, so I guess we do not need to be worried.
If you have any specific question, please let me know.
And no, there are no error logs, we do write some stuff into console, but I never found anything useful there. You might want to search for diskutil entries, as that is the process doing the mount and unmount part.
Cheers
Zsolt
But I can see that you understand it quite well, so I guess we do not need to be worried.
If you have any specific question, please let me know.
And no, there are no error logs, we do write some stuff into console, but I never found anything useful there. You might want to search for diskutil entries, as that is the process doing the mount and unmount part.
Cheers
Zsolt
#14
Espionage 3 / Re: Immediate Auto Lock on Big...
Last post by theFaf - January 28, 2025, 12:06:15 PMI created a new folder. It worked.
I then I attempted to decrypt the problem folder, but that failed leaving an empty "_Rescued Items" folder. I was able to manually mount the old sparsebundle and copy the data to a new location. Then I dragged the new folder into Espionage and let it set up a new encrypted folder; this worked. The new folder now mounts within Espionage as it should. I am a little concerned that perhaps I might be missing some recently added files... I will have to check a recent backup just to make sure that everything is there and the failed decryption did not whack anything.
I still find it rather odd that there was a problem in the first place. Is there an error log that I can check?
Scott
I then I attempted to decrypt the problem folder, but that failed leaving an empty "_Rescued Items" folder. I was able to manually mount the old sparsebundle and copy the data to a new location. Then I dragged the new folder into Espionage and let it set up a new encrypted folder; this worked. The new folder now mounts within Espionage as it should. I am a little concerned that perhaps I might be missing some recently added files... I will have to check a recent backup just to make sure that everything is there and the failed decryption did not whack anything.
I still find it rather odd that there was a problem in the first place. Is there an error log that I can check?
Scott
#15
Espionage 3 / Re: Immediate Auto Lock on Big...
Last post by zsolt - January 28, 2025, 01:57:16 AMHello Scott, did you try to create a new folder and see if it behaves the same?
Cheers
Zsolt
Cheers
Zsolt
#16
Espionage 3 / Re: Immediate Auto Lock on Big...
Last post by greg - January 27, 2025, 12:26:24 PMIf the problem persists with the old version, I'm not sure what to tell you. It sounds like there could be some other software installed on your system that's interfering with Espionage, unmounting the images that it's mounting.
If you email support@taoeffect.com you can try to schedule a remote session with our tech team to troubleshoot more.
If you email support@taoeffect.com you can try to schedule a remote session with our tech team to troubleshoot more.
#17
Espionage 3 / Re: Immediate Auto Lock on Big...
Last post by theFaf - January 26, 2025, 11:12:49 PMHi Greg,
Thank you for the reply and link to the previous version. I installed it, but the problem persists.
Scott
Thank you for the reply and link to the previous version. I installed it, but the problem persists.
Scott
#18
Espionage 3 / Re: Immediate Auto Lock on Big...
Last post by greg - January 26, 2025, 06:32:25 PMHi Scott,
We did not test on Big Sur, and we also did not modify any code related to this, so it's possible something Apple did broke something.
Please try reverting to an older version (which is essentially the same as 3.7.4):
https://www.espionageapp.com/releases/Espionage3.7.3.dmg
We did not test on Big Sur, and we also did not modify any code related to this, so it's possible something Apple did broke something.
Please try reverting to an older version (which is essentially the same as 3.7.4):
https://www.espionageapp.com/releases/Espionage3.7.3.dmg
#19
Espionage 3 / Immediate Auto Lock on Big Sur...
Last post by theFaf - January 26, 2025, 04:21:37 PMI have recently started having a strange issue with Espionage version 3.7.4 on macOS Big Sur (version 11.7.10).
When I unlock a disk image, it unlocks but then immediately locks/unmounts the image. As far as I know, I have done nothing that would have caused the default behavior to change, but Big Sur has been a less-than-great upgrade, so who knows.
I can manually mount the image, but using the Espionage 3 interface it will not stay mounted.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Scott
When I unlock a disk image, it unlocks but then immediately locks/unmounts the image. As far as I know, I have done nothing that would have caused the default behavior to change, but Big Sur has been a less-than-great upgrade, so who knows.
I can manually mount the image, but using the Espionage 3 interface it will not stay mounted.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Scott
#20
Espionage 3 / Re: Default disk image locatio...
Last post by carnecro - April 20, 2024, 10:55:13 AMThanks! I just wanted to know where the default image is so I can be sure it is included in my backup.