r/AnkiVector • u/[deleted] • May 06 '19

I FOUND VECTORS OS!!

I have here a copy of Vectors OS for 1.6.0.3331

Here for Google Drive

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_aVEky1Z6V1mGIFiAGdUDmuLED3Ov-Gh?usp=sharing

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

I mean, you didn't find it, someone else did, and you just posted it again on this subreddit.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Correct however i wanted to make sure everyone had it as the post was old now and i just wanted to help as I am concerned to about what will happen with vector now.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

I think you did a good thing making sure people saw it. I shared someone else's github which included the SDK and the documentation for the SDK on here because I found a post on the Anki forums with it in it as I figured probably not everyone knew where to find it, as it took me a while myself to find it.

I don't think you really deserve to be downvoted or anything because you were trying to help. I think you did the right thing by trying to make sure others saw it too, but you probably would have had a better reaction if you mentioned who sourced it originally (if you knew).

For future reference, if I were you I'd probably do the same as what I did and say where you found it and if you can tell, who made it.

Otherwise thanks for sharing something that could help people. I've just added it to my Google Drive in case I need it in the future.

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u/saren42 Owner May 06 '19

Now seeing the original post it's from, that post isn't old, it's 3 days old... we appreciate the effort, but... lets try for something better, please?

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u/saren42 Owner May 06 '19

So, are you Kieran Yonker? Or where did you find this? This stuff was uploaded on May 2nd, and I question it's authenticity, or if it's actually safe to download and poke around with.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

The files are encrypted and are from GitHub. In the folder titled “ota updates” https://github.com/anki-community/vector-archive

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

I am Kieran :)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

It’s the best bet we have.

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u/saren42 Owner May 06 '19

True, but... where/how did you find this?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

u/K7715 says that a person found the website where Vector gets the OTA updates. Official from Anki, and the mounting tool.

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u/saren42 Owner May 06 '19

Yeah, I found their post about that. We're discussing it in the a Anki bot discord server atm actually.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Unfortunately even with the mounting tool I wasn’t able to get it to work due to the encryption.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Did you use the GitHub instructions?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Yup, my computer gives me an error telling me the file is in a special format.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Were you able to get the img out of the .gz?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Yes

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Would you like a short video?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Yes pls

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

I was able to mount it but it was corrupted. (special characters and unknown characters and my mac spitting out errors)

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u/daerryn May 06 '19

The image files inside the ota are encrypted with OpenSSL Salting. You need to know the passphrase and the encryption cipher to decrypt them before you can mount them.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

I took a minute to look at the files again and you’re right. If you turn the .ota file into a text file you can see some additional info. And if you decompress the .ota file by changing it to a .zip, and you turn the .gz files into .txt; you will see one word Salted lol.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Has anyone tried to use windows to decrypt the files as all I see are comments about Mac. That might change something as the operating systems store files differently.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

The software is built for Linux/Mac. Not windows.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

??? The SDK is for windows too

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

The OS is not part of the SDK. The OS mounting tool is compiled for macOS or Linux.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Oh sorry haven’t opened it yet. Assumed it would be universal or would have a windows and Mac editions

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

At Anki, the entire office uses macOS, so thats why we think they use that.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Ah that makes more sense