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#51

Espionage 3 / Re: Espionage 3 encrypted fold...

Last post by zsolt - October 20, 2017, 10:50:28 PM

Hello, first of all, my appologies for deleting your previous post, we are fighting spammers on the daily basis, and I was carried away during clicking.

What you say is rather strange, but fortunatelly I encountered the same thing, but not in Espionage!

I downloaded the damn Adobe Flash updater, just as I did thousand times already, and when I doubleclicked on it it mounted as Google Updater??? and it was empty.

But when I check the mounted volumes in /Volumes folder the it is Adobe Flash updater, and there is a file inside, the updater app, but when I try to launch it, it says it does not exist.

So there is something fishy in High Sierra and Volumes, but I had no time to investigate it, because I encountered it during work, and today I'm away traveling.

I will come back on this, in the mean time if you find something on the google, please let me kniw,

Thanks
Zsolt

#52

Espionage 3 / Espionage 3 encrypted folder m...

Last post by SaturnV - October 19, 2017, 04:57:56 PM

Espionage 3.6.6 on High Sierra 10.13.

Last week I posted a strange alert from Espionage when trying to unlock an encrypted folder. The volume's original name created under Espionage is "Fonts" but Espionage threw a strange alert about not being able to rename "GoogleSoftwareUpdate-1.2.9.98" to "Fonts" (see attachment).

After putting the system to sleep and trying again 30 minutes later, Espionage opened the folder successfully and the name was correct. I chalked it up to some kind of bug in High Sierra volume naming since I had had a similar "misnaming" error on an app install volume downloaded from another developer.

Today I had two more instances of really odd volume naming behavior. In one, Espionage said that it unlocked the Fonts folder, but it was shown on the Devices list in Finder as a file and was not accessible. After retrying two times, it opened as a correctly named volume with the contents intact.

Then, after being open for something like 30 minutes, the Volume icon on the Desktop suddenly acquired a Dropbox graphic on it!  When I quickly locked the folder in distress, Espionage threw an error about not being able to access some long URL on Dropbox (unfortunately not captured with a screen grab...), but it did lock the folder.

Attached is a screen grab showing very odd Finder behavior: the Fonts volume is listed as a file and as two instances of a volume open at the same time.  Trying to eject the volumes via Finder failed (it used to work...) and the volume can only be locked from Espionage now.  After locking one of the Fonts volumes via Espionage, the other is now named "Dropbox Installer"! (see attached screen grab).

Am I seeing unstable volume handling in High Sierra, some kind of hack of my system, or is this an Espionage bug??
Please advise.

#53

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by zsolt - October 09, 2017, 05:55:28 AM

I know that this will be difficult to provide, but if you see that it crashed, can you quickly launch console application and check the allmessages and system log for espionage entries?

In fact, you can do that even now if it crashed recently, just enter in the console search field

espionage

see if it returns anything,

thanks
Zsolt

#54

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by Pistarino - October 07, 2017, 01:56:22 AM

I found that sometimes the Espionage icon disappears; I have to relaunch the App to use it. It looks like a silent crash...
macOS High Sierra 10.13 with Espionage 3.6.6

#55

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by zsolt - October 02, 2017, 10:39:22 AM

I encountered this problem with a USB stick, but not with an External Hard Drive, although, there should be no difference. I will test it again and let you know if I figure something out.

#56

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by yoshimurajt - October 01, 2017, 06:04:40 PM

I'm not able to lock folders on my local disk - it claims it can't lock the folder because it's being used by some process. Force ejecting locks the folder, but definitely not a preferred method of locking things out.

#57

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by zsolt - September 30, 2017, 01:02:09 PM

Hello again, I tested once again, this time with an external disk instead of (slow) USB stick and all works fine, no delays of any kind and it is possible to lock the folders.

Thanks for your input so far, if you encounter any problems, please let us know

Thanks
Zsolt

#58

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by Pistarino - September 30, 2017, 01:47:17 AM

Thanks for the reply. I will proceed with the update!

I upgraded and I have had no issues so far.

#59

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by Pistarino - September 28, 2017, 11:51:34 PM

Thanks for the reply. I will proceed with the update!

#60

Espionage 3 / Re: High Sierra

Last post by zsolt - September 28, 2017, 12:50:53 PM

Hello, I tested it, it seems to be working fine with folders which are on the local/startup volume.
If the folder is on an external volume like USB stick or disk, then there seems to be a problem with locking the folder, it reports constantly that it is in use even if all files are closed, and even if I quit Espionage.
You have to force eject the volume in the finder, this will lock the folder. It seems it is just a logical problem, no data should be damaged during this, but in spite of that, we will surely look into this.

Cheers
Zsolt