Worse still, I have gotten different advice from different techs - some say to install on my Mac or PC and then use the installed software's menu to add a flash drive, others say to download a specific version of the software for direct installation on a flash drive. They never seem to answer the same day and they don't seem to answer on weekends - this is understandable but frustrating due to the delay when I can't get their software to work. It won't open your installation and it will ask if you want to do a new (second!) install on the flash drive.ĭuring the course of my install efforts I have sent several email support requests to EncryptStick. I have found at least one issue that is not mentioned at EncryptStick's Web site - if you put the several files that show up after installation in a separate folder on your flash drive, EncryptStick no longer recognizes that it has been installed on that drive. Sometimes I get it to work initially, but ultimately it is not stable as I unplug my flash drive and try to open the software on a PC if I started from a Mac or on a Mac if I started from a PC. I have tried to install it directly onto my flash drive using both a Mac and a PC as the download platform and I have tried to install it first to both a Mac and a PC and then add it to my flash drive, which you are supposed to be able to do.
I downloaded and installed their free trial software, which is supposed to be a full operating version good for fourteen days.
#LEXAR ENCRYPTSTICK PDF#
This would let me take actual JPEG or PDF backup scans on vacation on a securely encrypted flash drive. I recently learned about EncryptStick (current version 6.0.13), which allows you to install the app on any USB flash drive and then open an AES 128, 256 or 512 bit encrypted vault on any Mac, Windows or Linux computer. The last thing I want to do is to take along a paper list or scan print of our passports and credit cards! However, this limitation has continued to nag me, since I also take a USB flash drive with 1Password Anywhere on vacations in case our computer is lost or stolen. This is OK for me, since we usually take a Mac Air along on our vacations. As that thread evolved I realized from other posts that such scans (attachments) are not included in 1Password Anywhere. I have posted to a thread on the 1Password Mac forum about using Secure Notes as a way to keep a backup scan of our passports and credit cards when my wife and I go on vacation to Europe.
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