Windows 8.1 Preview incompatible with Boxcryptor 2.0.401.172 ?

matbug

Just wondering if anyone has come across the same problem. Have moved to Windows 8.1 preview OS on a desktop and 99% of apps still work absolutely fine except for Boxcryptor (and Norton 360, just fyi for anybody doing the same, that's broke and Norton know it ).
Anybody any ideas about a work around for Boxcryptor ( am using it with Skydrive ) ? It's strange, it shows the encrypted folders quite clearly, but says they are all empty. Whereas if I look via the Skydrive app, it shows all the documents there correctly in the folders, but of course encrypted ( so Boxcryptor or the OS upgrade def hasn't deleted them ). I can still access them as usual via my laptop, which is running Windows 8 Pro.
Any ideas / info greatly appreciated, also hope this warning is of use to anybody else thinking of giving Windows 8.1 a go.

Robert

Hello matbug,

We will have a look at Boxcryptor under Windows 8.1 in the upcoming days and will do our best to make it work under 8.1 as soon as possible - at latest until the official public release of 8.1

Best regards,
Robert

matbug

Thanks, Robert - if it's any help, I think I may have found the problem with Skydrive. Windows 8.1. operates Skydrive rather differently, it's now completely incorporated within the OS ( so no need to download the Skydrive widget to the desktop anymore - and 8.1 forces you to sign into the computer with your Outlook / Skydrive id, not something I love but it looks like the great MS is pushing us that way ) and in doing that it created an 'old' Skydrive folder during the 8.1 install process. So I disabled Skydrive in Boxcryptor, deleted the 'old' Skydrive from the desktop, then enabled Boxcryptor / Skydrive again and re-synced everything, now works perfectly. Just FYI.......

HaBiMuc

Hi, I've also installed W 8.1 (RC) and tried to connect Boxcryptor Classic with the OS-preinstalled Skydrive-Boxcryptor file. This doesn't work. I got the prompt:

Fehler beim Laden der Konfigurationsdatei
Das System kann auf die Datei nicht zugreifen. (Ausnahme von HRESULT: 0x80070780).

In the configuration skydrive-option ist disabled (because I did't installed the widget). Than I tried to choose it by "Benutzerdefiniert" and this doesn't work.

Any news in this case?

Kind regards
HaBiMuc

Gustav

Hi HaBiMuc,

I get the same error. It is because the SkyDrive on Windows 8.1 is using only placeholders for the files, not the real files.
You have to make all files accessible in the offline mode. You can enable it in the SkyDrive settings. Then it should work.

Here is a guide to enable the files offline: http://blog.laptopmag.com/skydrive-offlin-windows-8-1

Greetings
Gustav