Main Program Window
Select File
Allows you to select a file-hosted VeraCrypt volume. After you select it, you can perform various
operations on it (e.g., mount it by clicking ‘Mount’). It is also possible to select a volume by
dragging its icon to the ‘VeraCrypt.exe’ icon (VeraCrypt will be automatically launched then) or to
the main program window.
Select Device
Allows you to select a VeraCrypt partition or a storage device (such as a USB memory stick). After
it is selected, you can perform various operations with it (e.g., mount it by clicking ‘Mount’).
Note: There is a more comfortable way of mounting VeraCrypt partitions/devices – see the section
Auto-Mount Devices for more information.
Mount
After you click ‘Mount’, VeraCrypt will try to mount the selected volume using cached passwords (if
there are any) and if none of them works, it prompts you for a password. If you enter the correct
password (and/or provide correct keyfiles), the volume will be mounted.
Important: Note that when you exit the VeraCrypt application, the VeraCrypt driver continues
working and no VeraCrypt volume is dismounted.
Auto-Mount Devices
This function allows you to mount VeraCrypt partitions/devices without having to select them
manually (by clicking ‘Select Device’). VeraCrypt scans headers of all available partitions/devices
on your system (except DVD drives and similar devices) one by one and tries to mount each of
them as a VeraCrypt volume. Note that a VeraCrypt partition/device cannot be identified, nor the
cipher it has been encrypted with. Therefore, the program cannot directly “find” VeraCrypt
partitions. Instead, it has to try mounting each (even unencrypted) partition/device using all
encryption algorithms and all cached passwords (if there are any). Therefore, be prepared that this
process may take a long time on slow computers.
If the password you enter is wrong, mounting is attempted using cached passwords (if there are
any). If you enter an empty password and if Use keyfiles is unchecked, only the cached passwords
will be used when attempting to auto-mount partitions/devices. If you do not need to set mount
options, you can bypass the password prompt by holding down the Shift key when clicking Auto-
Mount Devices (only cached passwords will be used, if there are any).
Drive letters will be assigned starting from the one that is selected in the drive list in the main
window.
Dismount
This function allows you to dismount the VeraCrypt volume selected in the drive list in the main
window. To dismount a VeraCrypt volume means to close it and make it impossible to read/write
from/to the volume.
