Thomas

I bought a new external 8TB USB hard disk for backup purposes and would like to encrypt it completely with Veracrypt. There should be no partitions on hard disk BEFORE VeraCrypt create a volume on it. So VeraCrypt should work with the naked original hard disk. First question: Is this recommended? Or should I create a logical partition first and then convert this partition onto a VC volume? I have a second externaL backup USB hard disk. For safety reasons I want to have a second backup USB hard disk...

I bought a new external 8TB USB hard disk for backup purposes and would like to encrypt it completely with Veracrypt. There should be no partitions on hard disk BEFORE VeraCrypt create a volume on it. So VeraCrypt should work with the naked original hard disk. First question: Is this recommended? Or should I create a logical partition first and then create a volume inside this partition with VeraCrypt? I have a second externaL backup USB hard disk. For safety reasons I want to have a second backup...

In general all my vc-encrypted external USB hard disk work fine. However I recently forgot accidentally to dismount such an external USB hard disk before Windows 10 shutdown. As a result I got the next time when I mount this external vc-encrypted USB hard disk a notification that this disk may by corrupt since it was not dismounted before last shutdown. I accepted to perform a chkdsk of this disk after mount.....and a lot of errors were found. Hmm, thats bad. Curiously the hard disk in focus was...

Not the intended answer: Again: Where in the the following directory: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/7-Zip/25.01/ can I find the Windows .zip package with the 7zip binaries? I see only .exe or *.msi packages In the past there were such *.zip packages

it is needed! 7zip should store its settings not in Registry and not in Windows user directory C:\users.... but in the 7zip directory (e.g. on USB flash drive)

When I select OsmAnd tile storage then Map Source "OpenStreetMap 4UMaps.eu" is pre-selecedt and shows me the following error in all tiles: TLS error: Untrusted certificate error" ..... Hmm, first startup and immediately error. Not impressive. Whats wrong?

When I start Mobac I am asked about the desired atlas format. What are differences/recommended formats? Is there a snapshot gallery which shows the different UI Look?

As far as I remember there was a native (!) portable 7zip package available for download. I cannot find it. Is it completely replaced by the PortableApps 7zip version?