TrueCrypt - Mount to Path in Windows

In Windows TrueCrypt apparently can only mount to a drive letter. PGP can mount to a path on Windows.

I have over a dozen TC archives and I cannot eat up drive letters.

With the upcoming release, and since Windows has support for this, why cant TC be modified to allow mounting on paths? I would even pay for this as a premium feature, and in fact would even upgrade my PGP license but I refuse to use software that depends on activation (Which PGP does and caused me significant issues)

 

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Out of interest, why do you have so many different volumes? And what are you doing with the other 10 or so drive letters?

 

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I need to keep each one the size of a DVD for easy backup. Many of them are archives and only change ocassionaly but I need read access to them frequently, and occassional write access.

The other 10? Well apps tend to look where they looked before, and smoe volumes are related so if I had to do dive letters they should be sequential, and I have a lot of network drives. There are 5 PC's here and each PC has access to at least one share on the others, plus a few local drives... you get the idea.

PGP and most other virutal drive rpograms offer mount from path as its a Windows feature that they take advantage of.

 

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It would be nice to have that option to mount to a path in NTFS, but surely you dont keep all DVD sized containers decrypted at the same time? Cache the passphrase/key, and unmount and mount as and when needed?

 

Though 2K specific, perhap's possible elsewhere - "How To Create And Manipulate NTFS Junction Points"

GF

 

Yes but that still requires the encrypted container to be mounted with a drive letter

 

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Yes and no. I dont have them all at once, but I never know which ones I need, and they contain data. Programs that access them remember their paths so expect the data always in the same place. So.... I cant share drive letters, or have data change drive letters... PGP Disk has this feature, but because of their activation policy (it caused be a major issue in getting access to my data while I was travelling) I refuse to use it any more.

 

And the TrueCrypt FAQ says Truecrypt doesnt work with that....