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#71
Espionage 3 / Re: Cannot access old folders
Last post by zsolt - July 20, 2017, 12:49:26 PMCan you please tell me which version of the OS X are you running, which version did ask you to reinstall, and which version do you have now?
Thanks
Zsolt
Thanks
Zsolt
#72
Espionage 3 / Cannot access old folders
Last post by jrp1986 - July 17, 2017, 10:29:05 PMHi everyone,
I just tried to open my encrypted folders as usual and Espionage asked to reinstall. I have reinstalled but my older folders already encrypted are not working anymore. Does someone know how I can access the older folders and recover the information there?
Thank you so much in advance!
JRP
I just tried to open my encrypted folders as usual and Espionage asked to reinstall. I have reinstalled but my older folders already encrypted are not working anymore. Does someone know how I can access the older folders and recover the information there?
Thank you so much in advance!
JRP
#73
Espionage 3 / Re: Difficulty restoring a spa...
Last post by zsolt - June 06, 2017, 01:12:13 AMYou are welcome.
The master password is sued to unlock espionage and let espionage access all the passwords it created for disk images.
Each disk image has it's own password, generated by espionage during folder encryption. You can see it if you click onto small "i" near the folder name in the folder list and then click onto copy password button.
I'm glad you got your data back,
Cheers
Zsolt
The master password is sued to unlock espionage and let espionage access all the passwords it created for disk images.
Each disk image has it's own password, generated by espionage during folder encryption. You can see it if you click onto small "i" near the folder name in the folder list and then click onto copy password button.
I'm glad you got your data back,
Cheers
Zsolt
#74
Espionage 3 / Re: Limitations of Espionage 3
Last post by charlesj - June 05, 2017, 10:02:04 AMThank you for the information
Regards
Charles
Regards
Charles
#75
Espionage 3 / Re: Difficulty restoring a spa...
Last post by Jaytech - June 05, 2017, 09:39:05 AMThank you! That worked. I didn't realize that the password that was saved to the desktop was the password I should be using to unlock the sparsebundle, as I was trying to use my master password. (I recall now that the app instructed me to use that password, but I didn't make the connection for some reason because I thought it was referring to something else.) Thank you for your help!
#76
Espionage 3 / Re: Limitations of Espionage 3
Last post by zsolt - June 05, 2017, 01:28:05 AMHello Charles, Espionage is not meant to encrypt a home folder because the OS will try to access those folders earlier then Espionage can load itself and unlock the folders. It is meant to protect folders inside your home (sub)folders, for example inside your documents folder, picture folder etc. as the OS will not go deeper it will just check if the default home folders are present.
The idea is that a portion of your user data is sensitive and you keep it in a dedicated folder and then use Espionage to protect it.
I hope this helps, let me know if you have any further questions,
Cheers
Zsolt
The idea is that a portion of your user data is sensitive and you keep it in a dedicated folder and then use Espionage to protect it.
I hope this helps, let me know if you have any further questions,
Cheers
Zsolt
#77
Espionage 3 / Re: Difficulty restoring a spa...
Last post by zsolt - June 05, 2017, 01:23:45 AMHello, if you have the sparsebundle on your desktop, that should indicate that you either selected the "decrypt folder" and this failed, or you selected the "force remove from database" option. In both cases however, there should also be password file saved onto your desktop, this is the password you have to use to unlock the sparse bundle.
You can either type it in into dialog which appears after you doubleclick onto sparse bundle (paste is not possible, you have to type it in), or you can reimport the sparse bundle into Espionage by dragging the sparse bundle over unlocked espionage window, there you can paste the password.
Let me know how it went,
Zsolt
You can either type it in into dialog which appears after you doubleclick onto sparse bundle (paste is not possible, you have to type it in), or you can reimport the sparse bundle into Espionage by dragging the sparse bundle over unlocked espionage window, there you can paste the password.
Let me know how it went,
Zsolt
#78
Espionage 3 / Difficulty restoring a sparseb...
Last post by Jaytech - June 02, 2017, 10:20:40 AMHi there. I'm having difficulty restoring a sparsebundle. I've read through several of the help topics and the solutions don't seem to be working for me. If there is a thread that provides a solution to my issue and you can link me to it, that would be great.
My issue is that my copy of Espionage 3 seems to have ejected my encrypted database out onto my desktop. I now have a file on my desktop called "name of my encrypted folder.sparsebundle." When I try to open the file by double-clicking on it, MacOS (10.12.5) asks for my password, but the password I used to decrypt the folder within espionage doesn't work. I previously had my encrypted folder on my HD, not on an external drive. I tried to drag the sparsebundle file back into the folder and open it up through Espionage, but when I do that I just see the sparsebundle file in that folder and I'm still unable to see its contents or open it.
Any pointers?
Thanks!
My issue is that my copy of Espionage 3 seems to have ejected my encrypted database out onto my desktop. I now have a file on my desktop called "name of my encrypted folder.sparsebundle." When I try to open the file by double-clicking on it, MacOS (10.12.5) asks for my password, but the password I used to decrypt the folder within espionage doesn't work. I previously had my encrypted folder on my HD, not on an external drive. I tried to drag the sparsebundle file back into the folder and open it up through Espionage, but when I do that I just see the sparsebundle file in that folder and I'm still unable to see its contents or open it.
Any pointers?
Thanks!
#79
Espionage 3 / Limitations of Espionage 3
Last post by charlesj - June 02, 2017, 06:10:39 AMI have Espionage 3.6 but am still undecided between Espionage and Filevault 2. I wish to encrypt my home folder and all its subfolders. I also wish to continue using Undercover.
I read in recent posts that Espionage cannot be used to encrypt my home folder and the advice seems to be not to encrypt folders under my home folder but only encrypt sub-folders of these.
This implies I will have to encrypt, perhaps, thousands of folders.
Is this correct?
Regards
Charles
I read in recent posts that Espionage cannot be used to encrypt my home folder and the advice seems to be not to encrypt folders under my home folder but only encrypt sub-folders of these.
This implies I will have to encrypt, perhaps, thousands of folders.
Is this correct?
Regards
Charles
#80
Espionage 3 / Re: Unable to open Sparsebundl...
Last post by zsolt - May 10, 2017, 12:27:02 PMGreat, I'm glad to hit the right point :-)
In case of any further troubles or questions, let me know.
BTW the problem you encountered came with Sierra, I would call it a bug, if the mountpoint folder is on an external volume then Apple's hdiutil which is used to manipulate the disk images, fails to work properly. As long as Apple does not fix this, the workaround I provided you is the only one which works.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
In case of any further troubles or questions, let me know.
BTW the problem you encountered came with Sierra, I would call it a bug, if the mountpoint folder is on an external volume then Apple's hdiutil which is used to manipulate the disk images, fails to work properly. As long as Apple does not fix this, the workaround I provided you is the only one which works.
Sorry about the inconvenience.