Text File Disappears

Confirmed. Created simple file named 'encryption-test.txt' containing simple sentence. Encrypted using default settings and 'test' as the password. Following encryption, the file was gone from the folder in which I created it. I searched the entire drive - no file. I did this twice with the same result.

Follow-up: I did the same test using a Word 2003 document - simple filed named 'encryption-test.doc' containing 1 word created in the same folder as above. Encrypted using default settings and 'test' as the password. Following encryption, which appeared to proceed normally, the file was gone. Again, searched entire drive - no file.

I tried File Recovery on the subject folder. PT found the 2 'encryption-test.txt' files and the 'encryption-test.doc' file, but the file names had been altered. I renamed the files to '.txt' and '.doc' appropriately, and tried opening using File Tool, Decrypt. When opening, the password was requested, but the files contained gibberish.

The recovered '.txt' files had been renamed to 0000006A.255 (or something similar) and the recovered '.doc' file had been renamed with an extension similar to '.doc27E9CBD_encrypted'.

Either something is wrong with PT or I'm using the encrypt function incorrectly.

Uriel wrote

Anyone else have this issue? I copied and pasted a user name and password to note pad and tried twice to encrypt it with the encryption utility in file tool and both times it disappeared off the face of the earth. Yup, the file just vanished.

Yes. It seems there's a bug. I submitted this Bug Tracker report:

• ID: xxxxxx
  

  
  

  Bug summary: A file can be lost when using the File Encryptor.
  

  
  

  Description: To reproduce:
  

  • 1. Create a file, named aaa.txt, containing any text content, on the desktop.
    

    2. Start PowerTools and start the File Tool.
    

    3. Drag aaa.txt to the File Tool window.
    

    4. Select the file and click the Encrypt icon.
    

    5. No "Advance security options" are checked.
    

    6. Click Start without entering a password.
    

    7. The file will disappear.

  Version 2.0.0.1007 with x64 Windows 7 (SP1)
  

  
  

  Submitted: 2/26/2011

Note: If I use the "also encrypt the filename option," the issue does not happen.

For whatever reason, when I use a password, it hiccups as described. Sounds like there's a fundamental flaw somewhere in the utility.

rdtmk5 wrote

For whatever reason, when I use a password, it hiccups as described. Sounds like there's a fundamental flaw somewhere in the utility.

Yes. I changed my note.

It seems the program only works when the "also encrypt the filename" option is used.

The password thing is a second issue:

• ID: xxxxxx
  

  
  

  Bug summary: The File Encryptor no longer requires use of a password.
  

  
  

  Description: To reproduce:
  

  • 1. Create a file, named aaa.txt, containing any text content, on the desktop.
    

    2. Start PowerTools and start the File Tool.
    

    3. Drag aaa.txt to the File Tool window.
    

    4. Select the file and click the Encrypt icon.
    

    5. The Start button is active even when a password has not been entered.

  Version 2.0.0.1007 with x64 Windows 7 (SP1)
  

  
  

  Submitted: 2/26/2011

I again created a simple Word 2003 .doc file and encrypted it using Encrypt. This time, though, as Tullik wrote, I selected 'Also encrypt the filename' and used a password. The resulting encrypted file did, indeed, have a non-standard, all-numeric file name with no extension, and it decrypted perfectly to the original Word file.

Again, looks like there are some basic functionality issues to sort out here.

The only file I encrypt regularly is the txt file of a million passwords. YES I LOST THE DAMN THING because I trusted jv16 2011 to do it like the prev versions did. I should know better cause every new version is worse than the last one. I guess it's MY FAULT. This is the final straw. I could possibly pull it off a backup but the 2011 couldn't even survive its first job. Crashed on the first 'clean and fix'. That should have warned me. But I trusted this app for so many years. Now when I need to reg clean I use 2009. Now all my passwords are lost. Looks like the end. Don't you people even try the functionality before releasing the thing?

Luckily, I did have a BK as I stated 'bout pulling a copy. What I didn't 'xpect was that it worked easily. Thank Heaven it did!

I did the 'clean&fix' first after install. Found a lot of empty folders. Crashed while processing the found files. I think it froze the system XPSP3. There was an error but I don't have the data.

Bobbyjcy wrote

Luckily, I did have a BK as I stated 'bout pulling a copy. What I didn't expect was that it worked easily. Thank Heaven it did!

I did the 'clean&fix' first after install. Found a lot of empty folders. Crashed while processing the found files. I think it froze the system XPSP3. There was an error but I don't have the data.

Please see this forum thread about CFMC freezing during the cleanup of empty folders related to AntiVirus products!

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4351&start=15#p27935

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4351#p27931