Avitar Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 So, here I was all hyped about true crypt and the encryption craze... so i decided to encrypt everything. I created 5 separate dynamic volumes, under the impression that they would work like flash drives, and system favorite mount them at startup to each hold a user file [my documents, my pictures, my music, saved games] and pointed the location in my user account to them, moving all the files to the volumes created... ok, that worked. Now I wanted to free up some space so i deleted 2GB of useless video. Lo and behold, no disk space change in the Drive storing the volumes. weird... The size on the True Crypt volume changed accordingly but not the physical drive. Then I read that deleting files does not reduce the size of a dynamic container!!! Now I have 60GB in a container for my games and 60GB in another for my videos, but 20GB free space. As moving out the files and then deleting the container is impossible, i'm stuck with 120GB occupied on my drive and no way to free space by deleting the files, nor any way to move all the files out of the container. As the Games will create new files for logs etc, the container will grow and grow, till it fills my drive... then get corrupted. so in effect i'm forced to delete my music, games and videos/movies now. Someone should have told me that deleting files does not reduce the size of the container!!! If possible, please make the program do that, only be as large as the files in it. Until this feature is implemented, i have no media. If I get fed up, i'm gonna have to wipe the drive, loose everything, and cry about how true crypt f****d up my system.Lesson learned: It's better to have your data safely in someone else's hands than inaccessible and forced to loose it... While I do not blame the program, i can't help but feel stupid here... and there's no rescue option i can use... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 Does anyone know how to fix this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrean Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 since your encrypted containers are just a bunch of volumes, why not just un-mount the volume and delete the file (what ever file the encrypted volume was in) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 since your encrypted containers are just a bunch of volumes, why not just un-mount the volume and delete the file (what ever file the encrypted volume was in)Then I would loose everything inside the container. See, i need 60GB of swap space to move the files to, then delete the container, and put the files back on the disk. Since I don't have a 64GB flash drive, i'm screwed!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowx Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Same to me not long ago.. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumia Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 external hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceguy7327 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I was gonna be polite but instead I am just gonna :lmao: .....get an wxternal HDD and then learn TrueCrypt before you use it next time. I use it and like it very much. As far as putting your data in someone elses hands to keep safe, I just gotta :lmao: again.... :sorry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrean Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Then I would loose everything inside the container. See, i need 60GB of swap space to move the files to, then delete the container, and put the files back on the disk. Since I don't have a 64GB flash drive, i'm screwed!!!I must have mis-read your orig post. My apologies.At least you have 20gb to save your most most important files :DAnd another 2gb with dropbox and a few more gb if you participate in their beta video/photograph import program. Or just go buy a bunch of DVDs to burn or shell a few more $ for an external drive.I am so sorry you have to go through this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marke68 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 The best thing to do is not mention this mistake to anyone,oh wait you already have. :PBad luck mate it happens to the best of us from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbojet2011 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I had it once a long time ago........ :(What I did was format the entire HDInstalled a new OS on another drive.Ans then searched for the files with this programs: Icare data recovery - Runtime Get Data back and GetData.Recover.My.Files.Professional.4.9.4.1343I found a lot of files back not all of them but its better something than nothing @ allGood luckAnd remember when you already lost evertything you only can win the next time :)GreetzJimbojet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csmdew Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Just wondering what do u have to hide in those movies and music that they need to be encrypted???? :P :P :wtf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Then I would loose everything inside the container. See, i need 60GB of swap space to move the files to, then delete the container, and put the files back on the disk. Since I don't have a 64GB flash drive, i'm screwed!!! I must have mis-read your orig post. My apologies. At least you have 20gb to save your most most important files :D And another 2gb with dropbox and a few more gb if you participate in their beta video/photograph import program. Or just go buy a bunch of DVDs to burn or shell a few more $ for an external drive. I am so sorry you have to go through this. i almost forgot!!! I have the entire HDD backed up on www.beecloud.eu when they were giving away 512GB free cloud space :) external hard drive? fumia, i don't have the USB to SATA cable, but don't worry, my data is in the cloud.Solution found :)Clean HDD and download in school at 54 MB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Just wondering what do u have to hide in those movies and music that they need to be encrypted???? :P :P :wtf: Having a good girlfriend saves you 50GB of space on your HDD, so none of what you were thinking. I'm not a nerd, Quite the opposite really... lackadaisical and don't care attitude really... Lots of girls to choose from when you're one of the most respected athletes in school. I'm just pretty quick at retaining information :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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