I copied my PortableApps.com folder to the vault which is located on OneDrive. Unfortunately many apps won’t run. E.g. when I double-click on G:\PortableApps\FileZillaPortable\FileZillaPortable.exe I get the following error:
A file missing for proper portablization is missing. File (G:\PortableApps\FileZillaPortable\App\FileZilla\fzdefaults.xml) is not present. Please reinstall the app before running.
The file fzdefaults.xml is there and can also be read. I noticed all files and folders in the vault don’t have the security tab when right-clicking and going to properties. Maybe this is related?
When I try to run it as Administrator, I get:
The specified path does not exist.
Same issue with Dokany or WebDav.
It kinda looks like an executable has problems to access additional files, although they exist, can be opened/accessed on their own and are addressed with relative paths (that’s how the architecture of PortableApps is built).
In the logs I found some odd messages, but since I’m not familiar with Cryptomator I don’t now if they matter. Where can I send the log confidentially?
This is a known bug, see https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/issues/1054. Currently only applications without admin rights can run from a vault. A workaround may be to remove the CURRENT_SESSION flag in the advanced vault options, but be aware of its consequences!
(Sorry, I don’t know the community policy, whether I should have created a new topic or revived this one.)
Every now and then I return to this subject and try to run my portable applications from within a vault. And these applications are very simple (they don’t require admin rights): Chrome Portable and Thunderbird Portable
I tried now again and once again I couldn’t run them.
When I click on Chrome I see data traffic in the Cryptomator interface “statistics”, but the browser doesn’t open.
When I click on Thunderbird it starts, shows the splash screen and quit.
No error messages appear in logs.
I regularly and smoothly use other cryptomator vaults for my files, but the only reason I still keep a Veracrypt volume is to run these software.
