Accessing cryptomator vault which is synced by nextcloud

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I have a working nextcloud running which can be accessed per WebDav an my android device.

Now i have new cryptomator vault generated on my Win 11 desktop. It is perfect synced by my nextcloud.

Then i have installed the crytomator app on android. I have tried many times to bind the WebDav to cryptomator with no success.

Can anyone supply a detailed howto of accessing an existing vault, which is accessable via WebDav, by cryptomator?

Thanks for reading and responding
Horst

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Hi.

Please describe exactly what your problem is. What you are doing, what the system behaves like, what you expect that should happen, maybe error messages from the logging
With the given information I can only assume you are searching for the WebDAV URL of your nextcloud webdav interface.

See here for the NextCloud WebDAV URL

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Hi Michael,

thanks for your help.

But no - i do know my WebDav Adress.

I tried the following on my android device. Maybe the terms ar not correct, because i am using a German version and i didn’t find a language switch.

Add a existing vault
[click] WebDav

Select my WebDav

Now i see my Nextcloud Vault like the following lines:

[Folder icon] d
masterkey.cryptomator
vault.cryptomator’
Wichtig.rtf

Below folder “d” there are a lot of folders with my encrypted content

now i

Select masterkey or vault file
[click] masterkey.cryptomator

An alert pops up:
”Vault is root folder of the cloud connection
Create an new cloud connection where you select at least the parent folder of this vault folder as the root director”

How can i achieve this?

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Your WebDAV connection points to the folder Of your vault.

Example: your vault is named „MyVault“ and is located in \Folder1\Folder2

The path of your vaults therefore is

\Folder1\Folder2\MyVault

You have your WebDAV connection pointed to „MyVault“ and therefore you see the Folder „d“ as root if you search with this connection.

Please change that, so that the WebDAV connection is pointing to „Folder2“.

When adding a vault, you must select at one point the Folder „MyVault“. Which you can’t because your connection is already pointing to this folder.

See here: Cloud Management | Cryptomator Documentation

While creating the WebDAV connection, please make sure to add the root of the accessible storage and don’t navigate directly into the vault.

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Hi Michael,

that’s it! It works.

Thank you

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Hi all,

I’m pretty sure that I have the same issue as Cryptomator Android won’t connect to my self-hosted NextCloud.

I assume that the path is incorrect.

Path to my files directory is:

https://192.XXX.XXX.19/remote.php/dav/files/MYUSERNAME

My vault is in a folder “Sicherungen”. So I tried:

https://192.XXX.XXX.19/remote.php/dav/files/Sicherungen/MYUSERNAME

Authentication fails without further notification except “Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten” / “An error occured”.

I am wondering if it is down to the missing certificate (only a self-signed one) - but in this case I’d expect a specific notification related to the missing/incorrect/untrustworthy certificate.

2FA is not enabled.

My phone runs on e/OS/ (latest version), version of Cryptomator App is 1.12.2 (obtained through F-Droid).

Thanks in advance

piemaker

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Hi and welcome to the Cryptomator Community :slightly_smiling_face:,

Can you please enable debug mode, reprdocue the problem and send us the log file? How do I enable debug mode on Android?

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Thanks for your kind reply. Stupid question: which is the correct email to send you the log files?

Thanks in advance

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If you click on “Send log file” in the Cryptomator settings, it automatically should set the to address but if not, please send it to support@cryptomator.org

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Stupid me! I blocked Cryptomator from accessing my local Nextcloud in RethinkDNS - and obviously forgot about that.. Allowing this connection gave me access to NC and the vault. Works flawlessly now.

Thanks Tobias for pushing the thought :folded_hands: