Missing files from restored vault

Hello all,

Recently, my vault and encrypted files were inadvertently deleted from an external hard drive. Thankfully, I was able to recover all the files (masterkey, vault, and encrypted files) using Disk Drill as the hard drive was not used for any subsequent data. Having restored the deleted files to a new external hard drive, I run into an issue when using the “Open Existing Vault” feature in cryptomator. I select the vault.cryptomator file, and the vault appears, with all the correct subfolders inside I had created. However, there are no files present in any of these folders. In other words, all my folders are present but none of the contents are. Does anyone have any ideas what could be going wrong? Also, if there is anymore information I can provide to help you assist me, please let me know.

Thank you!

Welcome to the Cryptomator Community :slightly_smiling_face:

did you checked, if there are any encrypted files present on the vault storage side? Encrypted files have the file extension .c9r. If there are none or they only have a size of 0 Bytes, then your files were not correctly restored.

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