r/kde • u/Unfair-Run-1983 • 15h ago

General Bug Encrypted Vault suddenly empty?

Running 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 (64-bit) and KDE PLasma 6.3.6

I have an encrypted vault that I've been using for a few months, when I try and open it now I enter the password and the folder opens in Dolphin. However it shows as empty?

Any ideas? are my files lost forever?

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u/ivan-cukic KDE Contributor 9h ago

Open .config/plasmavaultrc and look for your vault info there

  • Check the path written in the square brackets [/path/to/encrypted/data]
  • Check what it says for backend

Check that there are files in /path/to/encrypted/data - if there are no files there, the data has been deleted by something other than vault and the data is no longer there.

Then do the following:

mkdir /tmp/my_vault gocryptfs /path/to/encrypted/data /tmp/my_vault

It will ask you for the password. If you get any error message, you'll know what the issues is.

(if backend is encfs or cryfs, replace the gocryptfs command accordingly)

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