Bug 399643

Summary:	Allow storing Vaults on external disks
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Eridani Rodríguez <eridanired123>
Component:	Vaults widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	eridanired123, ivan.cukic, mehanoid.ru, ms_e97d592a7a59728716bea9a6c627a62386136b41, nate, phobosk
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.0.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452040
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Description Eridani Rodríguez 2018-10-11 07:21:54 UTC

SUMMARY
After upgrading from Plasma 5.13 to 5.14 on KDE Neon 5.13 (still Xenial based), accessing Plasma Vaults stored outside "~/.local/share/plasma-vault" became impossible.

I keep my Vaults stored on an external HDD so I can use them at home and work. I used to just symlink the data to the default directory on both systems but today updated my home PC and couldn't access them any more. Even modifying "~/.config/plasmavaultrc" with the real paths doesn't work.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a Vault
2. Move it outside "~/.local/share/plasma-vault" lets say, to your desktop.
3. Symlink it back so it keep appearing in the plasmoid lists next login
4. Log out and log back in
5. Try mounting it

OBSERVED RESULT
Vault fails to mount (without giving any feedback btw)

EXPECTED RESULT
Vault should be mounted normally


SOFTWARE VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0
Qt Version: 5.11.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Ivan Čukić 2018-10-11 09:24:30 UTC

Are you using cryfs or encfs and which versions of those you have installed?

Comment 2 Eridani Rodríguez 2018-10-11 16:40:01 UTC

EncFS 1.9.1-4+16.04+xenial+build4

Comment 3 Ivan Čukić 2018-10-11 17:02:36 UTC

External HDD vaults were never planned to work (I'm surprised it did), but I agree that it is a valid use-case. Marking as assigned.

Comment 4 Eridani Rodríguez 2018-10-12 21:15:11 UTC

Awesome, thanks Ivan!

Comment 5 ms_e97d592a7a59728716bea9a6c627a62386136b41 2024-07-03 06:18:46 UTC

It's been almost six years and this issue is still more or less a deal breaker for a lot of valid use cases... I mean, it's nice to have an encrypted storage on your local disk, but the idea to have it on some untrusted, external storage should still be viable. You know, cloud storage, thumb drives, stuff like this.

If Vaults aren't *supposed* to do that, then that's fine for me as well, but then please just close this issue.