Safely formatting my PC

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Well, you still need to that after wiping. The desktop application needs your vault stored locally on your hardrive.

There are exceptions: If you use a files-on-demand solution like Google Drive File Stream or you access your vaults online with cyber duck.

You may have assumed that the desktop app works like our mobile versions. For the difference, look here:

Does the mobile apps differ in functionality from the desktop applications?

Hey Community, to answer directly the topic question: Yes, they do. But to answer directly a concern: It is not on the security/encryption side. There are a lot of forum posts where it is at first unclear wether the people talk about the mobile applications or the ones for the desktop. But to actually provide help this is a crucial fact. Also there exist many questions why does this work on the desktop and not my smartphone. This thread wants to summarize the differences so that you directly …