Upgrade existing Vault pswd problem

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Hi everyone.
The problem.
I had an asus pc that crashed and I unmounted the hard drive on which I had the encrypted data (‘d’,‘m’, ’ masterkey.cryptomator’ and ‘recoverykey’) - I don’t remember which release of Cryptomator I was using) .
Bought the new pc and SATA adapter; I see the disk (asus) externally in which in a new folder called CRYPTOVPN I have inserted:‘d’,‘m’,‘masterkey.cryptomator’(recovery from asus disk) and, at this stage - when I tell it to open an existing Vault - Crypto asks me for the password (old asus pswrd) which I provide and is accepted it:
old-pswd-accepted
Now, Crypto 1.9.3 asks me for the upgrade Vault and ask me again a password for the CRYPTOVPN folder. While giving the correct pswd as before (the only password I used to open the old Vault) it does not accept it(why?).
after-ask-upgrade
So i can’t do the update. So I don’t know what to do with the old password, nor with the recoverykey that I couldn’t even use.
I am therefore in a serious impasse and I don’t even know \ to do with the asus recoveryKey.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d be grateful.
sonia

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ADDENDUM my previous post:
In fact, admitting that I forgot my password, what I don’t understand is why - having the recoverykey - Cryptomator doesn’t expect to have the password change function before upgrading the Vault.

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Hi. Please open your masterkey.cryptomator file with a text editor.
There a line with the value of “version” in it.
Please tell us the version number.

With the vault version number you can find out which App version fits this vault.
https://docs.cryptomator.org/en/latest/misc/vault-format-history/#vault-format-history

Then you can install the suitable old version, change the password with the recovery key and then migrate to the new version with your new password.

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Thanks Mick for the reply. Here is the image Version 6?
I read version 6; It looks to me like it’s version 1.3.0. I’ll try to download it now and then I’ll let you know.
sonia

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I downloaded Crypto 1.4.2 AppImage version from the official site and I tried to change the pswd - here image and image2 - which after the incorrect verification I thought showed me the ‘use the recoverykey’ sub-function but it doesn’t show me. I just don’t know what to do.
It all seems so strange to me.

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The recovery key function was introduced with App version 1.5 (vault format 7)
If your vault is older than format 7, then I doubt you have a recovery for it.

Your version is several years old.
I don’t see a way to open a vault that old without the password.

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Thanks Michael for your help. All right, I’ll search my (by now slimy) memory for this blessed password. Perhaps the mistake was - in addition to not relying on a pswd manager - also that of not updating the recovery key every time a new release of Cryptomator came out. Well let’s see what I can do.
Thanks again Mich.
hello sonia

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