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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 01:40 pm »
try it without the capitalization. if that still fails, type ls -a and paste the output here

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 01:33 pm »
you have two options. One is that you could run the command as root, since that will take care of the permissions problem. Since you don't normally care about accessing truecrypt from terminal, let's just skip that step though. Try the following:

cd /Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS

TrueCrypt --restore-headers /path/to/the/usb/device

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:49 pm »
actually scratch that, do this:


cd /Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS (or whatever the path is for you)
ln -s TrueCrypt /usr/local/bin/truecrypt (optional but lets you call truecrypt from other directories)

now you can use the truecrypt commands from before probably:

truecrypt --restore-headers /path/to/the/usb/device (edit: I think you must type TrueCrypt if you skipped the ln -s step)

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:46 pm »
Okay I tried looking up truecrypt commands for OSX and it looks like you need to do something like this first:

cd /Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS

(assuming that is the path to wherever your Truecrypt.app is)

then when you are there try tc --help and truecrypt --help as two separate commands.

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:22 pm »
I think he is either typing the commands wrong somehow, or they are in a different format on OSX. I think his USB device is still fine because Truecrypt must have detected it for him to attempt to mount it. If recovering the header from the embedded backup doesn't work, when we find out how to do that on OSX, then you can try to mount it without a filesystem and repair it. If that doesn't work I give up.

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:10 pm »
also are you putting spaces between truecrypt and --help ? I see you  did not between lsusb and -v when commenting on it

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:08 pm »
also make sure you are not capitalizing truecrypt or anything...

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:07 pm »
when you type truecrypt --help does a list of command options come up? Please paste it here if it does.

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 11:54 am »
I think mac is actually based on BSD kernel

try this limitless:

truecrypt -m headerbak /dev/usb_device_name

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 11:51 am »
yeah it would actually be /dev on linux as well I dunno why I put media

limitless okay try truecrypt --help and see if it gives any commands that are similar. On Ubuntu that is it though.

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 11:40 am »
yes enter the command in terminal

truecrypt --restore-headers /path/to/the/usb/device

perhaps you could just put the name of the USB device , on Linux it would be something like

truecrypt --restore-headers /media/device_name

also note that truecrypt has no - in front of it

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 11:32 am »
looks like it could also be caused from a corrupt header, in which case you have a chance to restore it from the embedded backup header. If the first solution does not work, attempt the following:

truecrypt --restore-headers /path/to/the/usb/device

you will be prompted and asked if you want to backup from a header backup you saved, or from the embedded header backup Truecrypt automatically added to the volume. Click on embedded and cross your fingers that it works I suppose.

That is the Linux command anyway it might be different on the Mac version, try truecrypt --help if that command fails and see if there is a Mac equivalent.

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 11:25 am »
First thing is to try and mount it read only, it looks like that can work in some cases. Select it in truecrypt as normal, but when you get to the password input section, click on the options button. This expands some additional things, check mount volume as read only. That will possibly let you access the content on the USB. If it does, I suggest storing it to an encrypted file container temporarily, and then formatting the USB device and re-encrypting it with truecrypt, making sure to select some filesystem that is compatible with whatever OS you are using, then you can put your content back on it and wipe the temporary encrypted file container. That is the first thing to try anyway. It looks like it can also be caused by corruption, in which case you may be fucked unfortunately. It also looks like it can be caused by trying to mount a filesystem that is not compatible with your operating system. That is just what I can gather from a quick google search, let me know how that works for you and if it doesn't I will try to find something else for you to try.

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Security / Re: Truecrypt issue
« on: February 19, 2013, 11:16 am »
Are you trying to mount it with a different operating system than usual?

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There was another study that showed that study was actually inconclusive for some reason. Looks like we need more studies.

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