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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by techm8 on October 03, 2025, 01:53:38 »

After saving my config, using "Cleanup User Data", I wiped out the settings, restarted MC and ran the tests again.

Everything works as it should. This leads me to believe that a setting in my MC config may have been the cause of this issue. ofc there's no way to know for sure what precisely that was all about.

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Support and Feedback / Environment variable in autostart.ini

« Last post by Rolf on October 02, 2025, 16:57:18 »

Hi I'm new here,

is it possible to set the path in the autostart.ini using an environment variable (%env%)?

Thanks

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by techm8 on October 01, 2025, 23:57:01 »

I can't replicate that.
External VC devices show up for me. If I enable override and uncheck removable HD.. than it goes away. and it should. But else it is shown.

Don't know why it different for your system.

Yeah, weird - I know. But I've seen more elusive bugs than this. lol

As you can see from the images, I have all the sub-items enabled, with only the top-level option checked or unchecked depending on the test.

Is it only if you connect it while MC is running ? If you restart MC after VC drives is connected does it show up ?

It doesn't matter whether it's running or not. From the test, I exit MC with each test.

I will test with a clean MC profile that has all default settings for Core & Explorer to see if that makes a difference. I just have to figure out how to wipe out the current config and start clean.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on October 01, 2025, 23:27:00 »

I can't replicate that.
External VC devices show up for me. If I enable override and uncheck removable HD.. than it goes away. and it should. But else it is shown.

Don't know why it different for your system.
Is it only if you connect it while MC is running ? If you restart MC after VC drives is connected does it show up ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by techm8 on October 01, 2025, 20:00:38 »

But you got it working so no issue anymore.

It's a workaround - not a fix. To be sure, I just ran another test, which I hope you will run on your end.

1. In MC. ENABLE "Override default settings" in device filtering (see image 1-4). Apply, Save, Exit, Restart MC
2. Plug in external VC drive (HDD or SSD). Login using VC credentials

The VC drive WILL NOT appear in the UI, though can still be accessed via the Explorer input box

3. Unplug external VC drive
4. In MC. DISABLE "Override default settings" in device filtering (see image 1-4). Apply, Save, Exit, Restart MC
5. Plug in external VC drive (HDD or SSD). Login using VC credentials

The VC drive WILL appear in the UI, and can also be accessed via the Explorer input box

In the attached images 5-7:

- D & E are VC partitions on an internal drive - which appear as normal, regardless of the above settings
- K is an VC partition on an external drive - which is subject to this issue as per above
- F (normal exFAT partition) & J (VC partition) on the same external drive - only the mounted VC partition (J) is subject to this issue as per above

My conclusion is that there is likely a MC bug that's affecting VC partitions hosted on external drives - but only if "Override default settings" in device filtering is enabled.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on October 01, 2025, 09:45:51 »

The Removebale HD option will enable/disable for USB connected devices.

But you got it working so no issue anymore.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by techm8 on October 01, 2025, 00:39:22 »

Yes But if you expand them. there are individual options under each section.. on what devices should be shown for each UI place to show devices..
Some of the option for the place where you did not see the device was probably not checked.

Yup - I am aware. That's why it's the first place that I checked when I was trying to reproduce this issue. I have all of them checked - except "Floppy" (which appears to be unchecked by default)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on October 01, 2025, 00:31:06 »

Yes But if you expand them. there are individual options under each section.. on what devices should be shown for each UI place to show devices..
Some of the option for the place where you did not see the device was probably not checked.


I don't think VC version matter.. MC does not see it as a VC device. it just see a removable harddrive. it does not know if it is VC or not. all that is handled in kernel level in Windows

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by techm8 on October 01, 2025, 00:26:57 »

I had checked all 4 sections in Device Filtering to figure out what the issue was. Which is why I wrote up this report.

Also, I have both internal HDD encrypted volumes as well as external SSD encrypted volumes.

If it's any help to you, I am using VC 1.26.24 x64

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with Veracrypt volumes on external drives

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on October 01, 2025, 00:17:00 »

It depends what is check under the device filtering section. Might be that Removable harddrive is unchecked.