Re: [Tails-testers] VeraCrypt

Hi!

> I am not a Tails pro; just an average user. I had never taken the downloaded
> ISO to a USB stick directly before. For manual updates, I always burned the
> ISO to a DVD and then cloned the system to my USB stick from the DVD. That
> way I had a backup if the stick ever failed. Unfortunately, when I formatted
> my new 32 GB USB stick, I encrypted it. I am not able to make the system
> load to that stick and I cannot get the encryption off it to test. My
> VeraCrypt files are all very large and would not fit on an 8 GB stick. I did
> have an old 8 GB stick I could use and I formatted it without encryption. I
> was able to move the system onto that stick but I cannot load my VeraCrypt
> files there as they are too large. If you can tell me how to get the
> encrypted 32 GB stick unencrypted or get the system to load to an encrypted
> stick, I will complete my testing. I tried reformatting the encrypted stick
> but that did not work for me.

You should be able to access your VeraCrypt containers on the media they
are currently on, without copying them to the Tails stick. If they are
on internal drives, you need to set an administration password in the
greeter to access them (if I recall correctly).

Cheers!