Hello,

I’m just posting this as a warning to anyone using Cryptomator for serious stuff. I’ve been using it in not-very-critical stuff for some years now and the reality is that I’ve had data loss on multiple occasions under Windows.

I had two major incidents:

  • After creating a vault in Google Drive (via Cyberduck) it worked fine for some time but eventually the vault was empty;
  • Long file names seem to f*k something and the files simply vanish after opening the vault a few times.

If you google “cryptomator data loss” there are a LOT of complaints and frankly I’ll ditch it now.

  • mirisbowringEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    This is why a backup strategy is only as good as the tested restore procedure!

    But i agree - same was for me (years ago) with restic and minio S3.

    Since then, i restore a full backup once or twice a year to a second machine to test it

    • andrewEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      A good reminder that backup was never the feature. Restore is the feature.

      • mirisbowringEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I mitigated the issue by testing my restore procedure:D

        I am still not sure if it was an restic or minio problem, but many files were corrupt.

        today i am using borg.

    • /bin/bash/English
      3•1 year ago

      Why people try to find another software alternatives instead of the use of the best and practice:

      The GPG!

      Works flawless for years.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        GPG is great, but is there an android tool to easily unlock your files? I know there is the GPG agent on the desktop but nothing came up when I looked it up for android

        • /bin/bash/English
          1•1 year ago

          Well i do that with termux just import the keys to android

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      gocryptfs is quite nice, but I haven’t found an iOS client yet. On Android there is DroidFS at least.

    • @TCB13OPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I’m not going to “vote” for a solution, but I know Cryptomator is weak and it fails. For me Veracrypt is the only solution I trust but that isn’t cloud compatible.

  • @grehundEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I use it with Dropbox. I haven’t noticed any data loss. I’ll have to investigate.

    • @TCB13OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Well we never notice until it is too late. My experience (and others apparently) is that files go missing randomly inside your folder, usually long names / very deep stuff that you won’t look at everyday. I also got a few image files that got corrupted.

    • Dark ArcEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I used to use https://www.cryfs.org/ for my notes, but I just moved everything into standard notes. I wasn’t happy with the lack of mobile access