Hi,
thanks for your work.
I have 2 questions.
1) I use Veracrypt on my notebook. Sometimes Windows gets stuck, and I'm forced to disconnect battery and then mount it again to turn off the notebook and then reboot it. If I do this when a Veracrypt volume is mounted, can I have loss of data? Consider that I have Thunderbird Portable in mounted volume, and it often downloads mails.
2) Again, when Veracrypt volume is mounted, and I decide to unmount it, sometimes Veracrypt prompts me that an application is accessing the volume. Sometimes even if I find no applications that need to be closed, and even if I wait a bit, I keep on to receive the prompt message "Force dismount?", so I can do nothing else that forcing dismount to go on. Can this lead to a loss of data ?
Thanks in advance,
Pio
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Thanks Enigma for your quick and kind answer.
Process Exlorer seems a good tool.
I backup volumes every day; the problem is: if I only have doubt about a possible data loss, but I'm not sure, making a restore is not so quick and easy...
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Anytime you have to force dismount or crash your system, mount the volume and run Check Filesystem or Repair Filesystem by right clicking on the mounted volume in the VeraCrypt GUI.
If your backup strategy for the volume is a copy of the dismounted file container or you copy the data not stored in backup format (in other words, you copy the actual files to backup destination via Windows Explorer) you can compare the original data files to the backup data files using FreeFileSync.
EDIT: Be aware that any files that change frequently like email repositories are going to show-up as different in FreeFileSync.
EDIT 2: You need to post on the Mirosoft forums to get help as to why your PC is freezing or hanging which is causing you to force crash the OS in order to prevent corruption to your OS drive and data on other drives.
Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2017-06-03
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Hi,
thanks for your work.
I have 2 questions.
1) I use Veracrypt on my notebook. Sometimes Windows gets stuck, and I'm forced to disconnect battery and then mount it again to turn off the notebook and then reboot it. If I do this when a Veracrypt volume is mounted, can I have loss of data? Consider that I have Thunderbird Portable in mounted volume, and it often downloads mails.
2) Again, when Veracrypt volume is mounted, and I decide to unmount it, sometimes Veracrypt prompts me that an application is accessing the volume. Sometimes even if I find no applications that need to be closed, and even if I wait a bit, I keep on to receive the prompt message "Force dismount?", so I can do nothing else that forcing dismount to go on. Can this lead to a loss of data ?
Thanks in advance,
Pio
The answer to both questions is yes. You risk either loss of data and/or corruption of data. That is why backups are important.
You can use Microsoft's Process Explorer to determine what files are open or what is accessing the volume.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/processexplorer
Thanks Enigma for your quick and kind answer.
Process Exlorer seems a good tool.
I backup volumes every day; the problem is: if I only have doubt about a possible data loss, but I'm not sure, making a restore is not so quick and easy...
Anytime you have to force dismount or crash your system, mount the volume and run Check Filesystem or Repair Filesystem by right clicking on the mounted volume in the VeraCrypt GUI.
If your backup strategy for the volume is a copy of the dismounted file container or you copy the data not stored in backup format (in other words, you copy the actual files to backup destination via Windows Explorer) you can compare the original data files to the backup data files using FreeFileSync.
https://www.freefilesync.org/
EDIT: Be aware that any files that change frequently like email repositories are going to show-up as different in FreeFileSync.
EDIT 2: You need to post on the Mirosoft forums to get help as to why your PC is freezing or hanging which is causing you to force crash the OS in order to prevent corruption to your OS drive and data on other drives.
Last edit: Enigma2Illusion 2017-06-03