Vault health check

The worst thing a photo vault can do is fail quietly. A file gets damaged and nothing tells you. Months later you go to open it and find out.

The health check removes the quiet. You can ask Silo to read back everything and say what it found.

What it does

The check opens every item in the vault, decrypts it and verifies it matches. Because Silo’s encryption notices any change, a single wrong byte in a file shows up. It reports each file as Damaged or Missing.

Verified import checks each item the moment it arrives. The health check is the same idea applied again later, to the whole vault.

How it works, step by step

1. Open Settings and choose Check vault health. It shows when the last full check was, or “Not checked yet”.
2. Choose Run full check. Silo shows progress: how many files it has checked out of the total.
3. Wait, or stop. You can stop and use Continue check to carry on later.
4. Read the result. If all is well: “Every file opened and matched.” If not, Silo shows how many files need attention and lists them with a label.
5. Act on it. The message says that nothing else was changed. If you have an export or a backup, put the item back from it.

Why it matters

A vault is a promise that your photos will still be there. The check is how you see whether the promise holds, on your own schedule, rather than on the day you need a photo. Run it before you remove originals, before changing phones, or now and then as a habit.

When backup arrives with launch, Silo is designed so that the check can also repair a damaged file from your backup.