VaultSort 5.3.0-beta.65

What's New

• The Vault: a private, always-encrypted space inside VaultSort. Everything you put in it is encrypted individually and stays that way on disk — there is no moment where the whole thing sits unlocked in a folder somewhere. Open it from Protect › Vault and unlock with whatever you already use: a security key, Touch ID or Windows Hello, a password, or your recovery code. Repeated wrong attempts are rate-limited with a visible countdown. Inside, you get folders and files with a breadcrumb, a size line per folder, and a Lock button; the Vault also locks itself after a period you choose. If the Vault's header has been tampered with, or replaced with an older copy of itself, it tells you what it found and makes you decide before opening.
• Getting things in and out. Drag files or a folder onto the unlocked page, or use Import. You choose Move — which securely deletes the originals afterwards, and reports exactly what the secure-delete engine could and could not guarantee — or Copy, which leaves them where they are. Export sends items back out to a folder you pick, as a copy or a move, and warns you first if the destination is inside a cloud-synced folder. Rename and Delete are there too, with secure delete offered on the way out.
• Notes live in the Vault. Write in Markdown with a live preview toggle, and notes save themselves shortly after you stop typing. Search covers note titles and their contents, which means the text is decrypted only to answer your search and is never written anywhere in the clear. The editor can take over the page while keeping the folder's other notes beside it, so switching notes doesn't close the one you're in — and an unsaved edit is written on the way out. If the Vault locks while you're mid-sentence, it waits for your work to be saved before locking.
• The Vault is a premium feature, and the paywall only ever faces inward. Adding new things to the Vault requires a licence. Getting them out never does. Unlocking, browsing, reading, exporting, deleting and — most importantly — managing your unlock methods all keep working regardless of what the app currently believes about your licence. A licence check can read false for someone who genuinely owns one: offline at startup, a rate limit, a new machine, a reinstall before the key is re-entered. None of those should stand between you and your own files.
• A focus mode for the Storage Map. Press F, or use the toggle at the right of the rail, and the map takes over the whole window — the sidebar and headers step aside. The map roughly doubles the number of tiles it can label, and the inspector widens so the full category list and cleanup suggestions fit without scrolling.

Bug Fixes

• Decrypting a duplicate no longer overwrites the original. Because VaultSort deliberately strips a file manager's duplicate marker, taxes.pdf - Copy.enc asks to become taxes.pdf — the exact name the original still occupies. The password-protected path checked only whether the destination was the encrypted file itself, so a different file already sitting there was replaced without a word. It now refuses to deliver onto a file it did not create, and password-protected duplicates also understand Windows Explorer's "- Copy" spelling, which previously left them decrypting to a name ending in .decrypted.
• A file named only .enc can no longer take a folder with it. Stripping the extension from such a name left nothing behind, and the delivery target resolved to the containing folder. The failure path then treated that folder as leftover output and securely deleted it.
• Decrypting on Windows no longer risks shredding the file it just produced. After decrypting in place, the cleanup compared two paths as text. A path typed with forward slashes never matched the same path with backslashes, so the file that had just been restored could be securely deleted as though it were the leftover encrypted copy.
• The Encrypt button counts what it will actually encrypt. Selecting one encrypted and one plain file offered "Encrypt 2 items" directly above a line explaining that exactly one would be encrypted. When VaultSort cannot classify everything — a large selection, or a check still running — it now says "up to", rather than stating a number it cannot stand behind.
• Storage Map fixes. The highlight could stay stuck on a tile you had moved away from, keyboard shortcuts did nothing until you first clicked the map, and the sidebar toggle could show the wrong state. Folder sizes are also refreshed after a deletion, including a partial one, so what you see matches what is on disk.
• Fewer meaningless update errors. The auto-updater reported empty and duplicate errors, and one secure-delete failure could be reported twice.