#214 Invalid Checksum after reboot

[Chasm]

Howdy,

I posted this at forum - https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/22634d00/ - but haven't received any answers. I'm hoping I can at least find out if my encrypted volume is hosed so I can face that and try and recreate.

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Hi all,

I've been using Veracrypt with a hidden volume on an external USB drive running under Tails OS for 3 months or so. It works as advertised.

The other day I had the hidden volume open and had written smallish text files in most directories. I forgot to unmount it before I hit the 'update Tails to latest (3.8)' button and left it overnight. When I returned I hit 'reboot'. Then when I tried to open the hidden volume it eventually came up saying:

ERROR: '<user directory="">' has invalid checksum (0x1234 != 0x1324)</user>

And it wouldn't mount.

When I say 'forgot to unmount it', i have not had any bad experiences so far. I've had to cold boot my box with the external hidden drive mounted and new files on it a number of times. It always came up no problems.

But this time it has failed.

Is there any way to recover this? I have a backup so have most of the files. I had reordered content so hoping that there is some way to get around this problem. The error was on one directory - can I recover all the other ones?

Thanks!

[Chasm]

Version VeraCrypt 1.22.