Update the vault?

[vapjnonlomafpwywwr]

Hi, I was using version Cryptomator-1.5.17 for Windows 7 because the following ones doesn’t work anymore. When migrating to Windows 10, installing version 1.6.4 Cryptomator asks to update the vault… What is this all about? It takes a long time? Demand to reprocess all files? Is it reversible? Can you open the vault updated with the old version of Cryptomator? I still use the old version even on Windows 10…

If it has to encrypt all the files again I’m afraid it’s going to suck as I have a lot of heavy files in the cloud. And sometimes Google Drive itself bugs when you open a file that hasn’t completely downloaded.

[Michael]

Hi.

@vapjnonlomafpwywwr

What is this all about?

Vault Format 8

Hello Community! We’d like to give you some information about an important part of the upcoming 1.6.0 release: The new vault format in version 8. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://cryptomator.org/blog/2021/10/11/vault-format-8/

@vapjnonlomafpwywwr

It takes a long time?

No (see blog post)

@vapjnonlomafpwywwr

Demand to reprocess all files?

No (see blog post).

@vapjnonlomafpwywwr

Is it reversible?

Yes, as there are only little changes. But you have to do it manually. There’s no roll back button. In case of any doubt: do your backups. These allow to roll back anything.

@vapjnonlomafpwywwr

Can you open the vault updated with the old version of Cryptomator?

No.

[vapjnonlomafpwywwr]

So to revert I just need to backup masterkey.cryptomator and replace it?

[infeo]

@vapjnonlomafpwywwr

Is it reversible?

Actually, this time the migration is reversible, see [1.6.x] Downgrade to 1.5.x. But that is an exception, in general a vault format migration is not reversible.

@vapjnonlomafpwywwr

So to revert I just need to backup masterkey.cryptomator and replace it?

Yes. But the pre-migrated masterkey file needs to be backuped.