Portable app won't start from within vault

Author: blap-oCreated Jun 13, 2022Updated Sep 9, 2026
Labelsos:windowsstate:has-workaround

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Summary

Portable app won't start from within vault

What software is involved?

  • Operating System: Windows 10.0.19044
  • Cryptomator: 1.6.10
  • Dokany: 1.5.1.1000 -Tor Browser: 11.0.14

Volume Type

Dokany

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Extract Tor Browser to a newly created vault
  2. Run Tor Browser

Expected Behavior

Tor browser would start from the mounted Cryptomator vault

Actual Behavior

I get the following error: "The application has failed to start because it's side by side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail."

Reproducibility

Always

Relevant Log Output

No response

Anything else?

Tor browser is a portable app that does not require admin rights so I believe this is not related to issue #1054.

Cryptomator is also setting most (if not all files) contained within the Tor directory with the Archive attribute. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the error (these files don't have an archive attribute when extracted outside a Cryptomator vault)

I tried running attrib -R -A /S on the vault files (not the unlocked/mounted files) and tried clearing the archive attribute on the actual files with no success (I can't seem to remove this attribute while Tor is inside the vault)