Automatically Dismounting When Logging Off
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I've started using Veracrypt and am having a problem.
I mount a drive and everything works fine until I log out and log back in again. The drive has disappeared and is no longer mounted.
Has anyone else had this problem? And how do I solve it please?
I'm running Windows 7.
Sounds like you need to make a change in the GUI Settings > Preferences:
Although it doesn't dismount logging in and out, it still dismounts if my laptops been off.
How do I mount the drive and it just stays mounted please?
I'm not sure what you meen by 'my laptops been off'. If you mean shut down and restarted, then of course your drive is not going to 'stay mounted'; it needs the Veracrypt driver to be running to allow that, and it isn't going to be running if your laptop's switched off!
However, you can arrange for your drive to be automatically re-mounted when you restart/logon to your laptop, using the GUI Settings > Preferences feature 'Mount all device-hosted VeraCrypt volumes' (if appropriate) or via GUI Favorites > Add Mounted Volume to Favorites > Mount selected volume upon logon.
I got there changing the favourites.
Why aren't they set that way as standard so we don't have to keep mouting them every time we log in?
Because it would be a security risk, wouldn't it? To mount by default, drives that by definition contain (sensitive) data you feel it necessary to encrypt! Users need to make a conscious choice to permit this.
Basic rule of IT security: deny all by default, allow some as required.
I've been using VeraCrypt for a few weeks now and it worked fine. But I now find that the volume does not dismount when computer shut down/power off. I've checked preferences and the ' mount selected volume on logon' is not checked. At the moment I'm manually dismounting before logoff. Any ideas please?
If you want to volumes to automatically dismount when you log off, you need to enable this in Settings > Preferences:
Note that this is an entirely separate matter from volumes auto-mounting when you log on, which is something you set via Favorites > Organize ... .
Thanks. Attached is screeshot of my preference settings - the default settings. However after deselecting the dismount on logoff, restarting then reselecting the dismount on logoff option the system now works as advertised: dismounts on logoff or power off or restart. One of thoese glitches I think. Anyway it is now OK. Thanks again
After reviewing your screenshot of your Perferences, if the problem reoccurs, enable the setting "Start VeraCrypt Background Task" in the "Actions to perform upon logon to Windows".
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/VeraCrypt%20Background%20Task.html
I do not see the auto dismount option within preference settings within gui nor cli. Is it only available for windows or do I miss something.
I'm using veracrypt 1.24 (https://launchpad.net/veracrypt/trunk/1.24/+download/veracrypt-1.24-Ubuntu-19.04-amd64.deb) on PopOS 19.10 (ubuntu based).
@matweid: The Linux version lacks many features present on the Windows version. Work is needed is achieve feature parity. For now most resources were focused on Windows but I have been receiving help lately on the Linux version and hopefully in the coming year we can implement most missing featuers.
Meanwhile, you can implement manually an automatic dismount of volumes at logoff by writing a script that invokes VeraCryptand cli to perform dismount and then configuring it to run at logoff (for example this link show how to configure a script to run at logoff).