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Hi, is using cryptomator with a cloud service any good ? Do you have better alternatives ?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've been using it for a couple of years with Google Drive on Windows, on a near-daily basis, with approximately 300GB across multiple vaults - some very large files, some very small text files (think Obsidian).

I have not encountered any errors / issues / lost data. I do frequently get a message where it tells me it can't lock the vault because it's still "in use", but I just Force Lock and go on with my day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I second this. Using it with Pcloud. Syncs just fine, and even if it does not fully sync from one computer, I haven't had it corrupt while using the files.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok thank you, I'm going to try it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have encountered errors. But I still would recommend it. It‘s a good app. However, I moved back to Veracrypt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem with veracrypt is that for every small edit I have to reupload the entire disk?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes. And that’s why I use Cryptomator too. It’s a nice alternative and I haven’t got issues with it yet. I only store a few GB though but it’s good for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

restic or duplicati might be a solution for you for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair point actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Files not being fully synced and ended up corrupt. This happened especially on iOS with documents actively worked on like for example numbers sheets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago