Cannot delete file after trying to change the timestamp

[ropma]

Hello,
I’m using cryptomator to encrypt my PCloud backup.
To an error in my backup script, to file dates in the backup are wrong. I try to fix them with a small bash script. But the script failed at one file and this file is now corrupt. I can’t open or delete it anymore. The windows 11 error message is “Can’t read the file header”
How can I now delete the corrupt file, to replace by to original file?
Regards, Roland

[Michael]

Hi.
Second result when you search for „delete corrupt file“:

Removed USB while writing

I could reproduce the problem myself and opened a bug ticket on the Cryptomator issue tracker: Fortunately, there exists a workaround: Use the “reveal encrypted file” feature in Cryptomator and delete the encrypted file directly.

[ropma]

Thank Michael! I tied the “reveal encrypted file” feature, but get the following error message:

The request could not be completed because of an I/O device error

[ropma]

Meanwhile I was able to delete to corrupted file. This are the steps to do this:

1. Create a new folder ‘corrupt’
2. Move the folder with the corrupt file to the folder ‘corrupt’
3. Re-create the folder in the original location
4. Move in all non-corrupted file back to that folder
5. Create a dummy text file in the corrupt folder. The folder contains two files: the corrupted and the dummy file.
6. Locate the dummy file using “reveal encrypted file”
7. Delete the other file in this folder (this is the corrupted file). This step is done in the cloud folder.
8. Delete the ‘corrupt’ folder (including the sub folder)