OpenMeta tags not searchable (Yep and Leap by Ironic Software)

cam

I use Boxcryptor on my Dropbox and feel very fine. After a clean install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, however, I can't see the tags I assigned with Yep or Leap (both from ironicsoftware.com). Unfortunately, I rely heavily on these tags.

My BC volumes have Spotlight indexing enabled, additionally, I sudoed mdutil -i on /Volume/Name-of-Volume. Terminal returns Index enabled. The annoying thing is that the tags are still there, visible in the info panel but not in the tag search panel on the left and not searchable by Leap (or Yep).

When I copy or move a file to a location outside the volume everything is fine and all tags are visible and searchable.

Ironic Software's support can't find a solution either. They checked BC's support pages and found the relevant article.

There is also the possibility that boxcryptor does not support 'xattrs' also called 'extended attributes'. Although they look like they do as I read this unrelated post: https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/688364-why-am-i-receiving-the-error-%22filexyz-is-damaged-and-can-t-be-opened-you-should-move-it-to-the-trash-%22-under-mountain-lion-

Any Yep or Leap users here to help out?

Adrian

Hello,

unfortunately BoxCryptor has some problems with extended attributes at the moment. Proper support will come in one of the upcoming updates.

Best regards,
Adrian.

meggycooke

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. I'm currently using Box Cryptor 1.0.5 (7), I did upgrade to the latest 1.1 version but it kept making my cpu usage stay around 80% - 100% on all my Mac's so downgraded back to 1.0.5 for the current time until this is fixed.

Is this now supported in the newest version? 1.1 or do we have to wait for more upgrades until this is supported?

Regards

Megan

Adrian

Hi Megan,

version 1.1.1 fixed the performance issues. Also we now properly support extended attributes, so i think Leap or Yep should work, at least my small tests with Yep showed it works just fine.

Please let us know if it works or doesn't work for you, with the latest version from our site.

Best regards,
Adrian.

meggycooke

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the reply, I still cannot seem to get it to work with tagging, even with the new 1.2.1 update, I was previously using 1.0.5 and EncFS, the new system has changed to using BCFS, do I have to manually create all my vaults again to use the new BCFS or will BoxCryptor automatically convert convert them over?

If it does automatically convert them over, I've ran some tests using Leap, Yep and Punakea and the tags are still not showing, if U manually drop the file into Tagit (from Iconic Software) it shows the tags on the files.

It seems like some searching issue, I have the following options set on the volumes:

Enable key validation
Automount
Mount as local disk (ticked but greyed out)
Mount for all users (ticked but greyed out)
Enable Spotlight

Regards

Megan

kubasko

Hello,
I'm using version 1.2.3 on mac and the issue is still there.
I can find the the openmeta tags until the file is moved into the boxcryptor folder.

when i moved the file back from boxcryptor folder to hfs then tag is searchable again.

i hope it can be fixed in newer version.

Thanks,

meggycooke

I've not heard anything about this being fixed either, I've tried several different open meta apps and none of them can find tagged files, if I drop a tagged file from one of my BC drives onto Tagit, it does indeed show it has a tag but for some reason my main program Leap still cannot find any tagged files (even after point it to my BC drives).