Can't recover - masterkey is missing

[Steff1]

Hello,
I seems to me that I made a big mistake. I wanted to generate a Tresor of a folder.
When I created the Tresor I had to choose a folder. Obviously I thought Cryptomator would crypt the choosen folder. Afterwards I figured that all the data in the choosen folder were available. Therefore I copied all the data in the Tresor.
In other words, I obviosly copied the masterkey etc. in the Tresor. Then I closed the Tresor and the masterkey can’t be found by Cryptomator.
Is there a chance to get my data back?
Your help is very much appreciated!!!

[Michael]

Hi.

Masterkey.cryptomator lost restoring the files

Hi everyone, So my problem is that I had to reformat my external SSD and I lost all the files in it. I couldn’t do a backup because it was too big (4T). Then, I’ve restored the deleted files that were in the SSD using Disk Drill Enterprise. The problem is, the program restored all the files but the masterkey.cryptomator file. What can I do? Did I just lost all my files?

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Recover masterkey file with recovery key?

Honestly, it’s a limitation on an application level. In theory, you could create a masterkey file out of the recovery key. So if you really only have the recovery key and lost your masterkey file, you could do the following workaround: Create a new vault. Copy masterkey file from new vault to old vault that has a missing masterkey file. Select old vault in Cryptomator. Go to “Vault Options” and select “Password”. Select “Recover Password”. Use the recovery key. Assign a new password. Edit: Yo…

[Steff1]

thanks for your reply. In my case, the masterkey file is obviosly in the tresure, therefore I do not have access to it.
And I have no recovery key unfortunately. Is there a chance to get my data back?

[Michael]

As said in my 1st linked post: no.
You need a recovery key to recreate your masterkey file.

[Steff1]

ok, I understand. I just thought, may be there is a way to get access to the masterkey which I copied in the Cryptomator vault.