SafeInCloud shows black screen instead of main screen

[413Michele]

Version: wine-7.0 installed from the official repository
OS: elementaryOS 6.1 (based on Ubuntu 20.04)

I downloaded the Windows 7/8 version of the program from https://safeincloud.ladesk.com/178979-Download

The application installs without problems and starts the initial wizard to create/import the password database, but when it should start the main UI it hangs, with the terminal reporting an unhandled exception.

I saved the terminal log, I think the relevant information starts on line 135. I set the Windows version to Windows 7, I didn't override any DLL nor registry settings, and I'm not using winetricks, if I can provide any additional info let me know.

[jkfloris]

Your clear description of the problem allows me to reproduce the problem.
As your log file indicates, the problem is in the Wine .Net implementation (wine-mono).
A solution is to install the Microsoft .Net Framework. This can be done easily with winetricks:

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# Make sure winetricks is up to date
sudo winetricks --self-update

# Install the .Net Framework
winetricks -q dotnet462

[413Michele]

Thanks, I'll test and report back. Just a question, I searched through Google a lot before giving up and reporting the issue here, one thing I gathered is that there is some sort of conflict between Mono and .Net (reasonably), should I remove wine-mono before I install dotnet462?

[jkfloris]

If you use winetricks then wine-mono is automatically removed.

[413Michele]

Installing dotnet462 solves the problem, thank you!

However, in the best of Wine's traditions, now I have a new problem: Google Drive sync doesn't work anymore.
The problem appears to be in the OAuth part, following these steps:

1. Install Safe In Cloud (having already installed dotnet462)
2. Start the wizard
3. Choose to create a database and to sync it with GDrive (or, as I did, restore an existing GDrive database)
4. The browser will open for the OAuth authentication process
5. The success confirmation page never appears

The curious thing is that this bug isn't there with wine-mono. To recap, using mono I can sync with Google Drive but not open the main app screen, with dotnet462 I can open the main app screen but not sync with Google Drive.

I attached the relevant lines of the terminal log, but this probably requires a new thread, am I correct?

[jkfloris]

Can you log in if you use the built-in Wine browser to log in to Google?

- Open regedit with: wine regedit
- Browse to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\command
- Change "C:\windows\system32\winebrowser.exe" "%1" to "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "%1"

[413Michele]

Sorry for the big delay, I had a busy week. I couldn't really test with Wine's built in browser as Google won't let me log in because the browser is too outdated, while with the other clouds (Dropbox and OneDrive) a small dialog opens but it's blank.