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Thank you for your reply. Before I proceed, I'd like to say I'm extremely grateful for the work that goes into this project, for the improvements it brings and for it being released as both open source & free as in beer. I think in this post-Snowden age, it's really important for people to have ready access to quality privacy tools. I'll have to hold my hand up as guilty of not having thoroughly "RTFM" hence being unaware of the pre-6.x+ restriction having already been stated. In my defence my understanding...

On further investigation I believe I have found the answer so I'm replying to myself here in case others experience the same problem. In a reply to another posting Mounir states that failure to mount the container file in Veracrypt could be due to having created the container with an older version of Truecrypt (prior to ver 6.x). Once I read this, I realised that in fact I have used Truecrypt for "quite a while" and perhaps I didn't create the problem container with Truerypt 7.1a after all. So I...

I'm currently unable to use Veracrypt 1.22 to open a Truecrypt volume contained in a host file that was created using Truecrypt 7.1a on Windows XP (32-bit) on a NTFS formatted 120GB PATA HDD. My current platform is Xubuntu Bionic 18.04 (64-bit) but it also fails on other platforms/versions (discussed below). The operation fails after selecting the file in Veracrypt, ticking Truecrypt compatibility, typing in the Truecrypt password (and root password when prompted), regardless of the PKCS-5 PRF settings....

I can confirm the version from the PPA BaggerMAN mentions installs just fine (although I do have a different issue with Veracrypt myself).

I'm currently unable to use Veracrypt 1.22 to open a Truecrypt volume contained in a host file that was created using Truecrypt 7.1a on Windows XP (32-bit) on a NTFS formatted 120GB PATA HDD. My current platform is Xubuntu Bionic 18.04 (64-bit) but it also fails on other platforms/versions (discussed below). The operation fails after selecting the file in Veracrypt, ticking Truecrypt compatibility, typing in the Truecrypt password (and root password when prompted), regardless of the PKCS-5 PRF settings....