BoxCryptor for Mac 1.1

Adrian

Hello BoxCryptor users,

today we are happy to announce the final version of BoxCryptor for Mac 1.1. This version brings big under the hood changes, most notably the replacement of EncFS with our own BoxCryptorFS and lots of other cool features as follows:

Whats new:
* BoxCryptorFS replaces Encfs
* Support for editing existing volumes
* Support for "Retina" Macs
* Application-wide support for system standard shortcuts (CMD+C / CMD+V / CMD+W and other)
* Detect if Finder shows "Connected Servers" on desktop and disable alias creation
* Various UI and usability improvements/fixes including:
- Updated artwork
- Updated main menu
- New contextual menu in Preferences (Advanced mode), when right clicking on a volume

Minimum system requirements:
* Mac with 64bit Intel CPU
* Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
* OSXFUSE 2.5.4 (automatically installed by the BoxCryptor Installer)

Download:
https://www.boxcryptor.com/download/

As always, we would be very happy to get feedback from you, like, what do you think about this new version, what new features would you like to have or anything else you want to share with us.

Thank you everybody for using BoxCryptor, stay tuned for more great features coming in the near future.

Best regards,
Adrian @ BoxCryptor Team.

wiemerj

Compliments to the team for V1.1/Mac:

No new issues here; all in routine.
BC seems to me best solution so far for secure cloud computing and sharing in respect to my workflows.

Future features:

As said:
Spotlight search for non admin accounts (but for the time being workaround is possible by other apps, that do not rely on spotlight index. But real SL integration would be favorable also for non-admin). I try to avoid doing everyday's business with admin account.
As also said:
Password / key management for more flexible sharing / business solutions.

Best wishes for your team and the whole start-up

kennethb

I had to revert back to 1.0.5 because 1.1 was much, much slower. I have a folder of 1,500 text notes that I access with Notational Velocity. Under 1.0.5, there was not noticeable delay in launching NV or accessing notes. Under 1.1 there was a 15-20 second delay in launching NV, and a sporadic 5-7 second delay, with spinning beachball, when searching for or accessing notes. Reverted to 1.0.5 and everything worked fine again.

My system:

MacBook Pro
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz
OS X 10.8.2

wiemerj

Additional observation (may be linked to recent post by kennethb):

After mounting box cryptor I see no significant delays for searching for files via filename (e.g. via app "Find Any File") and no delays for manual opening of nested folders and opening of individual files (do not use spotlight in BC because of non-admin account).

Things get worse when I open nested folders by option-click on triangle of one of my main folders in BC (e.g. 3-4 levels of subfolders / approx. 400 docs). System takes up to 4 minutes with high CPU load to decrypt / show all filenames and until CPU load comes back to normal.

MacBokk Air 3.2 (similar results on most recent iMac) / OSX 10.8.2 / approx 2000+ PDF, office and misc files in total

But this is not my usual workflow; so this is not very relevant to me for the time being. Did not test this under 1.05

Mezzanine

Awful performance and data loss with 1.1 in similar circumstances to kennethb. I use DEVONthink Pro and loading database with 2000+ files took minutes with 100% BoxCryptor CPU. Once loaded, verifying data 3 times within the app showed 129 files missing, 0 files missing and then 1565 files missing. Copying data out of BC volume with Finder only copied 1.8Gb of 2.7Gb. Something is badly wrong with this version. Am currently restoring data from backup prior to installing v1.1

Mezzanine

Reverted back to v1.05 and it looks like the underlying data is still there (DEVONthink found some 'DB inconsistencies' but was able to correct them without loss). Loading the DB is now back to taking just a few seconds again.

For reference, I'm using .encfs6.xml options of AES-128 (rather than 256) with name mangling - this may be a little unusual but works just fine with v1.0.5 and lower.

Adrian

Hi folks,

thank you very much for reporting the issues you have with BC. During our internal and beta test, we did not run into such problems as you've described above. It would be very interesting to investigate them and of course to find a solution. We are always working to make BoxCryptor better and with our latest update we've made some big under-the-hood changes (like BCFS), so off-course we expected some issues might appear, even after a long testing period, as there is really hard to test all possible use-cases of BC.

As soon as i have any news for you, i will report back here.

Best regards,
Adrian.

wiemerj

Ran today into some permission issues with 1.1.
Some of my files are data files of (US-) app ibank for Mac.

50% of all ibank data files are ok before and after storage to BC; other 50% (older/archived ones) seem to have corrupted permissions after being encrypted / decrypted by BC.

Files are no longer being able to get opened by ibank and deletion is refused in volume ("no permission"), but deletion (work around) works in folder.

Info on sharing and permission of those files reads only "custom permission"; all further options on names and privileges are gone and no longer visible.

Seems reproducible: Even if old backups are o.k.; copy to BC volume leads again to same odd behavior.

Do not see any clear pattern what makes files vulnerable or not.

ErichNigl

Same problem here!

I cannot use BoxCryptor 1.1
It is incredible slow in directories with about 200 files. I uninstalled 1.1 and installed 1.05 again. No problems with 1.05!!!

Please bring an update very quickly!

Regards

Dede

BC 1.1 final version is really much slower than BC 1.05 or even BC 1.1b2 (e.g. when writing with "Scrivener" an zipping a whole Scrivener project with about 250 files). Hope there is a possibility to solve this issue.

phillyman

HI,

I'm new to BoxCryptor but have also had some speed issues with my files in a dropbox container. I would like to compare that speed with version 1.05. Is there a way to download older versions of the application?

Cheers,
Philly

Dede

@ phillyman

https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/645466-boxcryptor-for-mac-os-x-changelog

phillyman

@Dede thanks for the link

Adrian

Hello,

Today we are releasing a small update to BoxCryptor for OS X, version 1.1.1, which contains:

Fixes:

- Failing to find/load folder configuration file, especially with folders located on removable drives

Improvements:

- Better handling of BoxCryptor folders located on removable/network drives
- Filesystem performance improvements

Download:

https://www.boxcryptor.com/download/download2/?platform=mac

Best regards,
Adrian.

kennethb

The 1.1.1 update appears to have fixed the slowness I was experiencing. Speed is back to what it was under 1.0.5. Thanks for rolling out a fix so quickly!

wiemerj

1) Performance much better now; issues in this regard seem to be solved.

2) Permission issues unchanged --> Still not able to open some files as soon as they are moved to BC volume (see above).

Jürgen

Adrian

Glad that the performance issues are gone now, we will off course continue work to make it even faster.

@wiemerj,

could you please send to my e-mail (ag[at]secomba.com) the Terminal output for "ls -la" command for the folder in the BC volume where this happens?

Does this happen to all files, or just specific ones?

Thanks,
Adrian.

Adrian

@wiemerj

As BoxCryptor does not support ACL atm, it is ok that you can't see per user/group file permissions when looking at Get Info. Usually you just see "You have read and write access" or similar.

Dede

Thanks, Adrian, for the fix. Performance issues are gone.

ErichNigl

Looks like the performace issues are gone! Great!