How to show mounted vault as drive in Nemo?

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Hi… new to Cryptomator and trying to understand how to best use it in Linux Ubuntu/Mint.

I see that vaults are mounted when unlocked to: /home/user/.local/share/Cryptomator/mnt/SoMeRaNdOmHaSh

However, I can also see the storage location is where I set the vault… and I presume I should only use/view the vault through the /mnt location.

My question is, can I get Nemo to show the mounted vaults as shortcuts as it would normally for other mounted locations/drives? I need to make sure I have a quick and efficient path to access the location (I don’t want to have to go through the Cryptomator menu every time).

Is this possible or am I misunderstanding how Cryptomator should work?

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Create an empty folder somewhere accessible, such as /home/therat/cryptovault

In your cryptomator vault options, set a custom mount point to the folder you have created.

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Is there also an option to have multiple vaults mounted to one single ‘cryptovault’, like cryptovault/notes, cryptovault/scripts, etc.?

When I try and point the second one to the same folder, it’s no longer empty and I receive a message telling me it has to be.

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You can not mount a vault inside another vault.

You can have multiple vaults mounted under different subfolders.
Make separate empty subfolders eg crypto/vault1/ crypto/vault2/
Mount your first vault to the subfolder crypto/vault1/ (not the parent folder crypto/)
Second vault to subfolder crypto/vault2/

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Yeah, I feared that would be the case.

It feels a bit cluttered to me, since I then have an unused layer / folder / label which (a bit exaggerated in the example) only adds to the maximum file name like so:

/cryptovault1/name_of_vault1/actual_contents_of_vault1
/cryptovault2/name_of_vault2/actual_contents_of_vault2
etc.

Thanks for clearing that up.

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It should work as
/name_of_vault1/actual_contents_of_vault1
/name_of_vault2/actual_contents_of_vault2

No need for the extra folder. Check your custom paths in Vault options/mounting.

What i meant was you can not merge vaults into one structure . Eg “Vaults/Actual_contents_of_vault1AND2” will not work

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Right, understood. I think the confusion on my end was that the actual contents of my vaults start with a folder. And that was the one I thought got added extra to the path, but it makes sense now.

Thanks for your patience.

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Ugh, sorry for all the questions, but I just can’t find out what’s wrong: I have 4 vaults, that now all 4 have their own mounting location. So far, so good.

But when I unlock the 4th one in a row and wait (or not, makes no difference) until cryptomator opens the folder for me, it shows up as empty. 0 items.

Added to that, I can’t lock that 4th vault, as the app (linux version 1.4.15-x86_64) then tells me it is busy.

I then lock a random one of the 3 successfully unlocked vaults, after which that 4th one can also be locked.

And to make the riddle complete, when I next unlock that 4th one, which showed 0 files before, it unlocks fine and shows all the contents.

If I then want to unlock the last remaining one of 4, the same thing happens: 0 files, cannot lock it again.

Any idea what I am missing here?

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You’re basically missing an update. :smiley: See release notes of Cryptomator 1.5.0: Release 1.5.0 - Brand-New User Interface (and Dark Mode) · cryptomator/cryptomator · GitHub

  • Support for more than three simultaneous mounts with FUSE (#674)
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Ah … That’s a shame.

My work laptop is a win8 machine, so I can’t upgrade that app to a higher version than is installed, since that requires win10. Since upgrading to a higher version on the linux machine als means upgrading the vaults, I think I’m a bit stuck for now.

No matter, I’ll make this work with some ‘creative’ mounting and such.

Thanks again for taking the time to point out the cause.

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You can actually install Cryptomator >=1.5.1 on Windows 7 SP1 or higher (as before) but we don’t officially support it. See release notes of Cryptomator 1.5.1: Release 1.5.1 · cryptomator/cryptomator · GitHub

  • Unofficial support for Windows 7 SP1+

I haven’t heard of a case yet where Cryptomator doesn’t work because of a too low OS version but we can’t make any definitive statement about it.

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Awesome, understood. For now I’ll keep it in mind, for when I get tired of swapping unlocked vaults. I just don’t want to / can’t run the risk of accidentally loosing any of the vault’s content by using an unsupported version.

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Backups are the computer user best friends. :wink:

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