Migrating from BoxCryptor+Dropbox: how versions work?

[Michael]

Hi.

Regarding vault locations:

How is default location for cloud services detected?

Hi, it was my impression that, when a new vault should be created, Cryptomator offers a couple of automatically detected folders. However, for me (1.5.?) it only let’s me choose a custom location. Nevertheless, I’m using Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive, which work fine when I select manually.

So I assume your Google Drive or dropbox installation path is not standard. Yes, as you did the way is then to use the custom location function.

Regarding version:
thank you for pointing this out. Im sorry to say this text is misleading. Let me explain: from a technical point of view, the encrypted files do have a versioning if the provider supports file versioning at all. But, as you do not know which encrypted file belongs to which unencrypted file, theres no usecase for this fileversioning at the moment. There is a discussion running how to implement a “reveal file name” function in the app, so you can at least find out which encrypted file belongs to the file you want to restore a version, so you can find that file at the online storage and use the providers file versioning feature to restore a previous version of the encrypted file. But this is not yet implemented. In short: there is no function available that allows you to restore a previous version from a file within your vault.
The text in the blogpost will be updated to avoid this misunderstanding.

Regarding conflict:
This is basically the same as you are used to from dropbox.

Advice to resolve file conflict in vault

Sync conflicts can happen in cloud storages (e.g., OneDrive in your case) for several reasons. Cryptomator is able to detect sync conflicts and will show you the conflicted file with a “(Conflict XYZ)” at the end. In that case, it’s your decision what to do with it. I would check both files manually and decide which one I’d like to keep. If your conclusion is that both are identical, you can delete one copy. But that’s all in your hands how you’d like to organize your files.