Sometimes "Select file" leads to a crash.

[Barry Stewart]

Hi, I'm facing this issue for a while. Basically what title says, sometimes, not always, when I click on "Select file" the program crashes without any error message. And subsequent intents make it keep crashing. After some testing I found a workaround for this which is to open the portable x32 (my main is x64) then click on "Select file", close this version and then the main x64 works as expected.
Is there a better fix for this issue?

Since I guess (and I think I remember from reading about this problem) it is related to the explorer process, I'll mention that I use QTTabBar .

[Gary Marks]

Hi Barry,

This sounds like one of the first issues I saw reported by some VeraCrypt users who were upgrading to the earliest releases of Windows 11 (with significant changes to Explorer), and later updates corrected the behavior. Here's the workaround I suggested at the time, which several users reported as working:

Create a shortcut to the VeraCrypt executable file and place it in your "SendTo" folder located here...
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
Then Explorer or any other file manager can be used to find your container file and "Send to >" VeraCrypt via the context menu, and VeraCrypt doesn't even have to be open at the time. If it works, this may be a slightly more acceptable kludge than what you've been doing.

[Barry Stewart]

Oh, that will work for containers but it won't fix it for keyfiles, right?
Notice that I'm under W10 not 11.