Easiest way to check current ShorteningThreshold setting for existing vault

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Hi All,

I am new here so apologies if this question has already been answered.

I understand that the max encrypted filename length is set when a vault is created and then this setting is stored in the vault.cryptomator file, although this itself is encrypted. What is the easiest way to check what this value was set to for an existing vault please?

Many thanks

Bradley

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Welcome to the Cryptomator community :slightly_smiling_face:

the file is not encrypted, it is only encoded as a JWT. You can decode it with websites like https://jwt.io/.

The vault config file does not contain any confidential data, so there is no harm decrypting it online.

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Thanks for that. Is my understanding correct that this setting cannot or should not be changed for an existing vault?

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That’s correct. If you want to change it create a new vault, set the new value during vault creation and transfer the files from the old vault to the new vault.

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Thanks, I found an android JWT decoder app; it seems I (sensibly?) left the threshold at the default of 220.

Now just to wait for the 80GB google drive upload to finish so that Cryptomator can replace some old 7z archives I previously used for backup.