VaultSort 5.0.0-beta.29

What's New

• VaultSort now runs on Windows 10 and 11. Organizing, deduplication, encryption, Secure Delete, Guardian, scheduled jobs and the on-device AI features all work the same way they do on macOS, using Windows equivalents where the underlying system differs. Wording follows the platform too — you'll see "File Explorer" rather than "Finder".
• Disk Shred erases an entire drive or a single volume. Choose a connected disk, confirm what it will destroy, and every sector the device reports as addressable is overwritten and flushed. Progress is reported live rather than leaving you watching a spinner, and a multi-pass erase can run for hours without the app deciding it has stalled.
• Free-space overwrite on Windows. Overwrite the unused space on a drive so that files deleted earlier — before VaultSort was involved — cannot be recovered from what is left behind. Progress is reported in real bytes as it goes.
• TRIM for flash drives. Where overwriting free space cannot work the way it does on a spinning disk, VaultSort now asks the drive itself whether it accepts TRIM, and offers that instead. If the drive says no, the app says so plainly rather than offering something that would not help.
• You can choose between stable and beta updates. Settings → Updates now has a Stable/Beta switch. Prerelease builds follow the beta channel automatically. If you switch to Stable while running a beta, VaultSort tells you up front that you will stay on your current version until a stable release passes it, rather than moving you backwards.
• A File Explorer context menu, with its own settings panel (Windows). Right-click files or folders to encrypt, decrypt or securely delete them, and turn individual entries on or off from the panel.
• Correct a drive's type when detection cannot tell. Some enclosures do not report whether they hold an SSD or a hard drive. Where VaultSort is unsure it now says so, and points you at the setting that lets you tell it — which changes what it offers straight away.
• A clear explanation when Windows blocks a folder (Windows). If Controlled Folder Access stops VaultSort touching a location, you get a dialog explaining what happened and what to do, instead of a toast that disappears.
• A frameless window with VaultSort's own minimize, maximize and close controls (Windows), matching the app's design rather than the default title bar.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a case where choosing Decrypt on a file that was not actually VaultSort-encrypted — a compressed disk image, for example — could destroy the original file. The file is now left untouched.
• Fixed VaultSort attempting to decrypt security-key-protected files with a password, which could also lose the file. Those files are now recognised and handled correctly. (If you protect files with a hardware security key, this is worth updating for.)
• Fixed drives whose contents could not be read being shown as empty and unencrypted, which made a drive look safe to erase when VaultSort had simply been unable to look.
• Fixed a corrected drive type not taking effect until you pressed Rescan.
• Fixed disk capacity still showing pre-operation figures after an operation had changed them.
• Fixed failed erases being reported as though nothing had happened. A failure now explains itself, and reports how much data actually reached the drive rather than claiming none did.
• Fixed the completion dialog describing a wipe using a standard it had not actually applied.
• Fixed free-space and TRIM actions being offered on volumes where they could do nothing.
• Fixed a failed TRIM showing a PowerShell command instead of an explanation.
• Fixed clicks inside a dialog reaching the card behind it, which could close the dialog mid-action.
• Fixed the Favorites drop area flickering and losing items dropped onto it.
• Fixed long error messages running outside the window.
• Fixed VaultSort failing to start an AI feature when the provider had retired the stored model, instead of moving to one that still works.