Topic: Wallet location saved somewhere? (Read 859 times)
Install Multibit inside the truecrypt drive ??
You could create a custom launcher/shortcut, that fires off Truecrypt first. This is assuming Linux, something similar could surely be done with other OSs.
If your shortcut was basically:
It would start Truecrypt first, and then without waiting for Truecrypt to complete, also start Multibit. That would give you a firm reminder to mount the drive/file/partition first.
In Linux, if you executed
This is assuming you can just run 'truecrypt' and 'multibit' from a command line. You may need to give it a full path, like /usr/bin/truecrypt (or whatever). Since Multibit is a java executable, something like this just now worked on mine, and it found my wallets fine.
I don't have Truecrypt on this machine, but assuming you can fire it off with the simple command 'truecrypt' the whole thing would be something like this:
YMMV, use at your own risk, no warranties implied. But, that looks kinda cool, I think I'll try it. I use Truecrypt, just hadn't thought about stringing those together like that. (just came up with that for this post)...
If your shortcut was basically:
Code:
truecrypt & multibit
It would start Truecrypt first, and then without waiting for Truecrypt to complete, also start Multibit. That would give you a firm reminder to mount the drive/file/partition first.
In Linux, if you executed
Code:
truecrypt && multibit
it would wait until Truecrypt was exited with no errors and closed before it started Multibit. This is probably not what you want, though it would work if you didn't mind starting Truecrypt again to cleanly unmount the drive/file/partition.This is assuming you can just run 'truecrypt' and 'multibit' from a command line. You may need to give it a full path, like /usr/bin/truecrypt (or whatever). Since Multibit is a java executable, something like this just now worked on mine, and it found my wallets fine.
I don't have Truecrypt on this machine, but assuming you can fire it off with the simple command 'truecrypt' the whole thing would be something like this:
Code:
truecrypt & java -jar /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/MultiBit-0.5.12/multibit-exe.jar
YMMV, use at your own risk, no warranties implied. But, that looks kinda cool, I think I'll try it. I use Truecrypt, just hadn't thought about stringing those together like that. (just came up with that for this post)...
You'd probably know a better solution for this than I do, so I won't try and think of one 
Anyway, it's not like this is a necessity, but it would be pretty handy to have eventually.
Anyway, it's not like this is a necessity, but it would be pretty handy to have eventually.Not exactly a "solution" but may I suggest switching from Truecrypt to MultiBit's wallet encryption feature. To my knowledge there is no disadvantage in security while it offers the advantage that you can always check your balance / open MultiBit without a password.
Sometimes I forget to mount my truecrypt drive before I open MultiBit. I then realise what a dreadful mistake I've made, close MultiBit, mount the drive (heh), and re-open MultiBit. Then I have to wait for any wallets I had open to sync which takes a little while (more so when you have more than one wallet syncing after another). What's really annoying is when I accidentally hit the shortcut for it, which (obviously) does the same thing.
You'd probably know a better solution for this than I do, so I won't try and think of one Anyway, it's not like this is a necessity, but it would be pretty handy to have eventually.
Cheers.
You'd probably know a better solution for this than I do, so I won't try and think of one
Anyway, it's not like this is a necessity, but it would be pretty handy to have eventually.Cheers.
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