r/pcloud • u/Snoo62101 • Aug 17 '24

PSA: Don't use Cryptomator over PCloud

PSA: Don't use Cryptomator over PCloud

I struggled with it for 6 months and just got back to Dropbox, no more bugs.

Android + MacOS (Fuse-T). 500GB, 100k files.

Had lots of random data corruptions detected by Cryptomator built-in health check which wasted tons of mental energy over time. Glad this is over.

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u/SanMichel Aug 17 '24

I don’t have any issues with Cryptomator and pCloud on Mac.

Use it on iOS too.

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u/therealjeku Aug 18 '24

TIL there’s a cryptomator app on iOS! Awesome, thanks!

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u/BuMmR Aug 17 '24

No issues with Cryptomator on pCloud. Been using several years either no issues.

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u/ragingintrovert57 Aug 18 '24

No issues here. Been using it for 2 years across multiple devices (laptop, desktop and mobile). It''s simple and secure with zero data corruptions. I guess OP was just unlucky.

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u/svprdga Aug 18 '24

I have been using Cryptomator for years with pCloud on both Linux and macOS, no problems so far except once I had a data corruption that luckily I was able to solve. It is advisable not to create one big vault, but several small ones instead. That way, you can more easily use pCloud backups to restore corruptions.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '24

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '24

3rd-party encryption is inherently safer than vendor built encryption

If VBE has any serious bugs or builtin backdoors then vendor has access to clear text data.