BUG: Strange triplicate filesystem entries in root directory with Cygwin

bc203331

When I access a BoxCryptor virtual drive from Cygwin, I see triplicate entries of each file, directory, etc., in the root directory of the virtual drive.

For example, in the root directory, I see:

$RECYLCE.BIN/
$RECYLCE.BIN/
$RECYLCE.BIN/
System Volume Information/
System Volume Information/
System Volume Information/

If I create a new file.txt, I also see three entries for that file:

file.txt
file.txt
file.txt

I don't have any additional problems accessing or working with these files and directories; I just see three entries for everything. There also do not appear to be triplicate entries in non-root directories.

I don't know if this is a bug with Cygwin or with BoxCryptor, but I have never seen this with Cygwin before (e.g. when using TrueCrypt).

Thanks

CC

This Cygwin -- BC problem has been reported before (this forum).

BC is based on CBFS ( http://www.eldos.com/cbfs/ )

It looks like a CBFS interfacing issue or perhaps an internal
CBFS problem (?), because a few other CBFS-based systems have
the same problem and at least one CBFS based system doesn't have
this problem.

Similar CBFS-based systems (including BC) are also causing other shell
problems (not the triplication issue) when using Cygwin, the Windows
command prompt or the Mac OS terminal.

Updating files manually works fine, using shell scripts that cause some
workload is causing problems. A so called software mutual exclusion,
synchronization implementation problem ? Perhaps low-level conflicting
file access methods used by command shells ?

Because I haven't seen these problems yet when using GUI's.

sz

and that is why, based on the older post, I reverted to using boxcryptor 1.2. There the issue does not exist. Considering the progress of this issue, I start to wonder why I bought a license ....

kdb

Bug still applies in BoxCryptor Classic. Is there any update on the issue? For me this makes using BoxCryptor impossible, since I use Cygwin all the time. (Also: Bought the license just yesterday because I needed multiple drives).

BCUser01

I just want to state that this issue has not been solved yet (using BC Classic 1.7 on Windows 7).
Also, MSYS does not have this issue. So if this helps, one could use MSYS (part of MINGW installation).

Two years and not even feedback from the developer?
Seems like it's time to move to Linux and the original EncFS.