The event triggering my inquiry had been simple and familiar.

Later, I would switch to VeraCrypt, which was actively maintained and was growing beyond TrueCrypt’s limits and its potential problems. Awkwardly, TrueCrypt had also just received a passing grade on the first phase of an in-depth audit of its security capabilities, and meanwhile DiskCryptor, possibly its chief competitor, was still showing definite signs of immaturity. My working solution under these circumstances was to retain TrueCrypt (using version 7.1a, which as noted in that other post was still available for download, not version 7.2) and simultaneously to work toward greater familiarity with DiskCryptor. If something goes terribly wrong & it gets corrupted, you still have the originaL.As described in another post, in summer 2014 TrueCrypt was in the throes of a major change and/or its demise. Oh, & PS - just for extra care, copy the. No guarantees, but that probably the most reasonable compromise if you ever want to see those old files again. If you are worried about security breaches, sandbox the TrueCrypt & volume to decode into clear text, unistall TrueCrypt, create a suitable VeraCrypt volume, copy decoded cleartext you got from the old TrueCrypt volume, into the new VeraCrypt volume, delete both the clear text and the TC volume, & now you should be pretty much converted & good to goīottom line is if you have some really old TrueCrypt volumes you wold like to recover, your options are basically give up, or do the one time port with original TrueCrypt, import them into your new VeraCrypt volumes, then delete TrueCrypt & those volumes from your system. It it's important, get the last version of TrueCrypt (7.2), decrypt or mount those volumes in TrueCrypt, create a suitably sized & secure empty VeraCrypt volume, copy all your recovered TrueCrypt files into the new Veracrypt volume, and you are done.Ĭould there be problems? Perhaps, but I've done this with no problems with TrueCrypt volumes created over a decade ago. Just to distill the content here & provide my experience - yes - really old volumes of TrueCrypt CAN NOT be opened by VeraCrypt.

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