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diff --git a/doc/html/Favorite Volumes.html b/doc/html/Favorite Volumes.html index a813f843..2e585914 100644 --- a/doc/html/Favorite Volumes.html +++ b/doc/html/Favorite Volumes.html @@ -1,83 +1,86 @@ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid</title> <meta name="description" content="VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files."/> <meta name="keywords" content="encryption, security"/> <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> -<div> -<a href="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html"><img src="VeraCrypt128x128.png" alt="VeraCrypt"/></a> +<div> +<a href="Documentation.html"><img src="VeraCrypt128x128.png" alt="VeraCrypt"/></a> </div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="Home.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/code/">Source Code</a></li> <li><a href="Downloads.html">Downloads</a></li> <li><a class="active" href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="Donation.html">Donate</a></li> <li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/" target="_blank">Forums</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> -<a href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a> +<a href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a> <img src="arrow_right.gif" alt=">>" style="margin-top: 5px"> <a href="VeraCrypt%20Volume.html">VeraCrypt Volume</a> <img src="arrow_right.gif" alt=">>" style="margin-top: 5px"> <a href="Favorite%20Volumes.html">Favorite Volumes</a> </p></div> <div class="wikidoc"> -<h2 style="text-align:left; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-weight:bold; margin-top:0px; font-size:14px; margin-bottom:17px"> +<h2 style="text-align:left; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-weight:bold; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:17px"> Favorite Volumes</h2> <div style="text-align:left; margin-top:19px; margin-bottom:19px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px"> <p>Favorite volumes are useful, for example, in any the following cases:</p> <ul> <li>You have a volume that always needs to be <strong>mounted to a particular drive letter</strong>. </li><li>You have a volume that needs to be <strong>automatically mounted when its host device gets connected to the computer </strong>(for example, a container located on a USB flash drive or external USB hard drive). </li><li>You have a volume that needs to be <strong>automatically mounted when you log on </strong>to the operating system. </li><li>You have a volume that always needs to be <strong>mounted as read-only </strong> or removable medium. </li></ul> +<p> +<strong>Note: </strong>Please refer to <a href="Issues%20and%20Limitations.html">Known Issues and Limitations</a> section for issues that may affect favorite volumes when Windows "Fast Startup" feature is enabled. +</p> <h3>To configure a VeraCrypt volume as a favorite volume, follow these steps:</h3> <ol> <li>Mount the volume (to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time). </li><li>Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main VeraCrypt window and select ‘<em>Add to Favorites</em>’. </li><li>The Favorite Volumes Organizer window should appear now. In this window, you can set various options for the volume (see below). </li><li>Click <em>OK</em>. </li></ol> <strong>Favorite volumes can be mounted in several ways: </strong>To mount all favorite volumes, select <em>Favorites </em>> <em>Mount Favorite Volumes </em>or press the ‘<em>Mount Favorite Volumes</em>’ hot key (<em>Settings </em>> <em>Hot Keys</em>). To mount only one of the favorite volumes, select it from the list contained in the <em>Favorites </em>menu. When you do so, you are asked for its password (and/or keyfiles) (unless it is cached) and if it is correct, the volume is mounted. If it is already mounted, an Explorer window is opened for it. <h3>Selected or all favorite volumes can be mounted automatically whenever you log on to Windows</h3> <p>To set this up, follow these steps:</p> <ol> <li>Mount the volume you want to have mounted automatically when you log on (mount it to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time). </li><li>Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main VeraCrypt window and select ‘<em>Add to Favorites</em>’. </li><li>The Favorites Organizer window should appear now. In this window, enable the option ‘<em>Mount selected volume upon logon</em>’ and click <em>OK</em>. </li></ol> <p>Then, when you log on to Windows, you will be asked for the volume password (and/or keyfiles) and if it is correct, the volume will be mounted.<br> <br> Note: VeraCrypt will not prompt you for a password if you have enabled caching of the pre-boot authentication password (<em>Settings </em>> ‘<em>System Encryption</em>’) and the volumes use the same password as the system partition/drive.</p> <p>Selected or all favorite volumes can be mounted automatically whenever its host device gets connected to the computer. To set this up, follow these steps:</p> <ol> <li>Mount the volume (to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time). </li><li>Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main VeraCrypt window and select ‘<em>Add to Favorites</em>’. </li><li>The Favorites Organizer window should appear now. In this window, enable the option ‘<em>Mount selected volume when its host device gets connected</em>’ and click <em>OK</em>. </li></ol> <p>Then, when you insert e.g. a USB flash drive on which a VeraCrypt volume is located into the USB port, you will be asked for the volume password (and/or keyfiles) (unless it is cached) and if it is correct, the volume will be mounted.<br> <br> Note: VeraCrypt will not prompt you for a password if you have enabled caching of the pre-boot authentication password (<em>Settings </em>> ‘<em>System Encryption</em>’) and the volume uses the same password as the system partition/drive.</p> <p>A special label can be assigned to each favorite volume. This label is not the same as the filesystem label and it is shown within the VeraCrypt user interface instead of the volume path. To assign such a label, follow these steps:</p> <ol> <li>Select <em>Favorites </em>> ‘<em>Organize Favorite Volumes</em>’. </li><li>The Favorite Volumes Organizer window should appear now. In this window, select the volume whose label you want to edit. |