Cryptomator insists on using my Windows C: drive for the vault in my offline pCloud folder on D: drive

[Michael]

Hi.
You faced this issue:

Virtual drive shows capacity of system partition (C:)

I created a vault on an external hard drive on an empty NTFS Partition (J:) with the size of 242 GiB. According to Windows, the resulting virtual drive and my C: Partition have identical size and free space (98 GiB overall size, 6 GiB free space). Inside the vault on Partition J:, I only can use those 6 GiB for data storage. Partition C: is the one where my Windows 7 and Cryptomator are installed. The screenshot below shows the sizes of the three partitions as well as the Cryptomator app for ve…

@LearningAsIGo

Is there any disadvantage to using Fuse?

No, quite the opposite. WebDAV has disadvantages compared to FUSE. For example, the problem you mentioned, but also the fact that WebDAV can only handle files up to 4 GB.

@LearningAsIGo

If not, what is the reason Cryptomator defaults to using WebDAV for the virtual drive?

WebDAV is available on all systems by default and does not need to be installed as it is part of the OS. For this reason, it was decided at the beginning of Cryptomator’s development that the virtual file system would be made available via WebDAV. And even today WebDav is used by default if no other virtual file system can be found (somehow Cryptomator has to mount the vaults). Later FUSE (WinSFP) and Dokany were added as options which have to be installed separately.