Knox vault after a crash

Michael Smith

Hi All,

I recently had my hard drive crash. I was able to make a back-up of my documents folder, but I was distracted and did not specifically open my Knox vault and copy the files. Two questions: 1)where does the Knox vault reside ( I am hoping that it is in the documents folder)? and 2) what is the extension I should look for to see if I have it.



Thanks in advance for your help,

Mike Smith

khad

Welcome to the forums, Mike. I'm sorry to hear about your hard drive failure. <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/skype_sadsmile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':-(' />



Fortunately, it sounds like you grabbed the right data. The default location of Knox vaults is in the Knox subfolder inside your Documents folder. The file extensions are [font="Menlo"].sparsebundle[/font] for 10.5+ compatible vaults (the default) and [font="Menlo"].sparseimage[/font] for 10.4 compatible vaults. If you did not change the default location, you should be all set.



Please let me know how it turns out. I strongly recommend [url="http://forum.agile.ws/index.php?/topic/1971-holistic-backup-strategies/"]a good backup solution[/url] for the future!

Michael Smith

[quote name='khad' timestamp='1303635409' post='25525']

Welcome to the forums, Mike. I'm sorry to hear about your hard drive failure. <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/skype_sadsmile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':-(' />



Fortunately, it sounds like you grabbed the right data. The default location of Knox vaults is in the Knox subfolder inside your Documents folder. The file extensions are [font="Menlo"].sparsebundle[/font] for 10.5+ compatible vaults (the default) and [font="Menlo"].sparseimage[/font] for 10.4 compatible vaults. If you did not change the default location, you should be all set.



Please let me know how it turns out. I strongly recommend [url="http://forum.agile.ws/index.php?/topic/1971-holistic-backup-strategies/"]a good backup solution[/url] for the future!

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Thanks Khad,

I was able to find the file in my back-up. It is what I needed. Thanks for your help.



Mike

khad

Phew! That is a relief. We can never underestimate the importance of backups!



Thanks for updating the thread to let me know.



Best regards,