Boxcryptor Classic Mac OS X 10.11 - El Capitan

mindobjects

Hi,

Look like the latest version of Mac OS X (El Capitan) broke Boxcryptor since application launch correctly but never mount volume correctly.

Any plan to fix soon ?

Best,
Alan

Robert

Hello Alan,

I'm sorry, but we will not add support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) in Boxcryptor Classic. Please upgrade to Boxcryptor if you also want to upgrade to El Capitan.

Best regards,
Robert

mindobjects

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your reply. I would like to know :
1. I don't want to create an account on your web site does the boxcryptor works with encrypted filename in this case (look like it is local mode on the new version) ?
2. I have several volume on BC classic with different password and location, does it possible with boxcryptor ?
3. How to transfert volume from BC Classic to boxcryptor (just copy /move)?
4. BC Classic offer support of encrypted volume on removable drive (by placing and reference volume for this place). Does this is possible with boxcryptor ?
5. Why do you stop support of BC Classic ?

Best regards
Alan

Robert

Hello Alan,

Regarding your questions:

1. You can use Boxcryptor with a local account - in this case, all data is stored in a key file on your computer and no connection to our servers is required. And yes, a local account can also be upgraded to Unlimited Personal or Business in order to use filename encryption.

2. You can only have one Boxcryptor drive and being logged in with one account at a time. Within the Boxcryptor drive you can define various different locations (what would be multiple volumes in BC Classic).

3. Easiest way would be to have both applications running and simply copy the files from the Boxcryptor Classic drive to the Boxcryptor drive.

4. Boxcryptor auto-detects removable drives and automatically adds them as a location in the Boxcryptor drive.

5. Boxcryptor Classic has simply reached it's "end of life". With the release of Boxcryptor 2.0 ~2 years ago, we decided to focus our efforts on Boxcryptor 2.0 and keep our 1.x versions available as Boxcryptor Classic. We also announced that we would support Boxcryptor Classic to keep it up and running but we would not add any new features (like support for new operating systems).

Best regards,
Robert

mindobjects

Dear robert,

Thanks for your quick reply !
1. I have test the chrome extension with a local account and try to used it from my Dropbox. Detection have been done properly but I can't connect with my local account (Each time I get message: Access Forbiden - Try Again). I'm presume that the Chrome extension works only in "Server Mode". I can't used your server mode for security reason and it is important for me to can access from browser (that I can do with BC Classic today without any problems).
2. Could you please confirm that there is only ONE password for all encrypted information. On BC Classic, we can have a different account for each volume, witch is very convenient and can increase security (but not having same password for all).
3. Does the Android / iOS can browse a Dropbox or does the limitation that apply in my point 1 is the same ?
4. If I add a user (who have a registered server account) to a local account crypted file and send the file and FolderKey.bch to this user could he can decrypt file ?
5. I'm using PathFinder (with is a great replacement for the Finder). Do you plan to present the content of the Finder menu as service so it can be used without having to go to Finder for the BC operations ?

Best regards,
Alan

mindobjects

Hi Robert,

Having find response to :1 and 3, so only need answer for 2 and 5 please.
I'm really hope that I can have different password question 2, so ...???

Best regards,
Alan

Robert

Hi Alan,

Regarding your open questions:

2) One local account only has one key file and one password. If you need to use different passwords, you'd have to create multiple local accounts and use multiple key files - which could become messy and confusing so I would recommend against using multiple accounts.

4) Managing permissions (e.g. granting another user access to an encrypted file) is not possible with a local account because of the missing automatic public key distribution (and manual distribution is not an option due to the horrible user experience for the average user).

5) Please see this thread for information how to have the Boxcryptor services in PathFinder:
https://forums.boxcryptor.com/topic/creating-a-boxcryptor-service-for-pathfinder-7-on-os-x-yosemite

Best regards,
Robert

mindobjects

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the reply.

I hope that you will consider on future to can manage different passwords. On business this can be very important to have a global share with all documents and special parts accessible only to specific user ... this without having to used your "centralized password" system.

Thanks,
Alan

PFGisler

Hi Robert - I think it is very sad that you don't support the classic version on el Capitan. I don't like to encrypt the whole dropbox so how can I encrypt only a certain folder in dropbox?

Thanks

Pirmin

Richard Hess

Hi PFGisler,

you don't need to encrypt your whole DropBox with Boxcryptor.
It's possible to select certain folders for encryption.

Please have a look at this short scenario:
1. Set DropBox as a Boxcryptor Location (automatically set when DropBox is installed)
2. Open your Boxcryptor Drive
3. Navigate to the folder you want to encrypt (in the Boxcryptor Drive)
4. Right-click the folder and select the option to encrypt the folder

This way you only encrypt one certain folder with all its contents.

Kind regards,
Richard

pawel1611

Hello Boxcryptor Team,

That's very sad news you will no longer support Boxcryptor Classic in El Capitan. It is even worse information for myself - I have more than 200GB in a cloud encrypted with Boxcryptor Classic. But there is also bright side - you made me investigate how EncFS is supported by OS X and it seems it's not so bad! You just need MacPorts :)

Bye, bye Boxcryptor Classic

afourney

Has anyone found a workaround?

@pawel1611, have you figured out how to get EncFS working? I've had no luck with homebrew.

In any case, I refuse to rent this software. Hell, I'd buy an update if one was provided.... but no subscription model. Sorry.

samuray7

Hi Boxcryptor Team,

Bad news indeed.. I just recently purchased Boxcryptor Classic because it's this version which does exactly what I need - not the "new" Boxcryptor.

Now, besides losing this investment, I also need your "evacuation" advice on how to move away from Boxcryptor. I'm now on El Capitan, having 2 Gb of encrypted data with encrypted passwords. I need one-time possibility to decrypt my data before I remove Boxcryptor from my Mac for better.

Thank you ahead for the advice..

Trebuin

I just found myself with 3TB of map data an other stuff inaccessible since my upgrade. This is going to be a painful fallback to get access to that data. Not to mention, I paid for the encrypted file names and multiple devices which is now an annual fee? Could anyone recommend an alternate program that will not have these issues? Even worse...my entire financial records are encrypted and not accessible now. I bought this for the individual file encryption due to a container becoming corrupt and losing all those files. Since then, I have multiple backups, but things do become corrupt.

Trebuin

Fix:
It looks like between 1.3.4 and 1.4.anything up had something change which prevents it from working on El Capitan. 1.3.4 is not supposed to work on yosemite or later, but it works fine for me. Follow this exactly:

1) download 1.3.4
2) make sure no other boxcryptor dmg is mounted...this causes issues.
3) delete your current boxcyrptor file...do not uninstall it...just delete the single file.
4) install 1.3.4
5) run 1.3.4...everything should be working fine now. If not, check to see the version number of your boxcryptor...I found mine would retain if I had multiple dmg's mounted or I had not deleted the newer boxcryptor version.

To think about:
We will be rolling back from all the fixes, but this at least works. I wish Boxcryptor would simply fix the one thing changed that breaks in in El Capitan.

samuray7

@Trebuin - your workaround worked for me, thanks - but only after I had installed the latest version of OS X Fuse as well... It even seems to have picked up my license so it still encrypts the file names.

SO - yeah, better than nothing. We should just keep in mind that we are left with a quite obsolete app relying on a non-native file system ( I can recall at least one serious data crash with one of those earlier versions of FUSE-based Boxcryptor). So one cannot really trust important info to Boxcryptor Classic anymore. BTW, encrypted Mac OS X Sparse Bundle Disk Images can offer a surprisingly elegant, free, and reliable alternative in you only need to access it from Macs.

Trebuin

@samuray7 - The downside of the image is the lack of individual file encryption which I rely upon. I tried Viivo as an alternate and it did not meet my needs, it requires twice the disk space as it does not mount but rather create a file directory that you copy the files to.

It may be possible to import the boxcryptor fuse to get things working, but that may take someone more experienced than me. I've yet to figure out what specifically is causing boxcryptor to fail.

Trebuin

@everyone - Full Fix, no hacks required, just your own work:

After looking at the guts, I took a guess to fix it and figured it out...very simple if boxcryptor wants to update a current version.

1) install the latest version of boxcryptor classic (1.5.409 at the time of this guide) if not already installed
2) open the applications folder in finder view or wherever boxcryptor classic is installed.
3) right click boxcryptor classic and select show package contents
4) expand into Contents, MacOS, Filesystems
5) right click on bccfs.fs and select show package contents
6) expand into Contents, Extensions.
7) copy the 10.10 shortcut and paste it into the same folder...it defaults to the contents folder for me, just drag it back.
8) rename 10.10 copy to 10.11
9) close the window
10) open the applications folder in finder view or wherever boxcryptor classic is installed.
11) right click boxcryptor classic and select show package contents
12) expand into Contents, MacOS, Resources
13) right click on bccfs.fs and select show package contents
14) expand into Contents, Extensions.
15) copy the 10.10 shortcut and paste it into the same folder...it defaults to the contents folder for me, just drag it back.
16) rename 10.10 copy to 10.11
17) close the window

That's all you need to do.

Trebuin

@everyone: I have received notice that an upgrade has been released that is read only...if you want to continue using boxcryptor classic, don't use that version. Version 1.5.409 works fine. the archived versions are located here: https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/645466-boxcryptor-classic-for-mac-os-x-changelog

MonkeyRocker

Thx trebuin!

Great instruction, works like a charm again.
Timing couldn't be better too as i just ran into this and just answered it :-)

Indeed, quit annoying because once you upgrade to el capitan the data is gone and it will require going back a version to get the data back (or another pc). I prefer copy pasting a few fs-links

Florian

hi philogilvie ,
Sorry for the late response!
Here is a working link to the unofficial version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6e4p6ooezh01zb9/Boxcryptor_Classic_v1.5.417.253_Installer.dmg?dl=0

Best regards,
Florian