Can't recover - masterkey is missing

[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…