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After upgrading to Sequoia, I noticed that there are 4 new volume disks on my desktop. They all have the exact same name: "Creedence11M6270.SECUREPKITRUSTSTOREASSETS_SECUREPKITRUSTSTORE_Cryptex", are all the same size/ have the same files, and are APFS format. Can I delete these files? or the duplicates and leave one? Screenshot attached.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 15.0
One of our customers has this issue too, currently in the process of troubleshooting it and so far managed to get rid of the dmg from mounting. Now in the process of figuring out what the source is.
I recommend using this process to figure out which app(s) is/are causing this
Go to your login items (launch daemons) and literally turn off everything that has a slider in the list and once you've done that reboot your Mac. You'll notice that it won't come up anymore.
After that try turning on a handfull of startup apps every time to narrow down which app(s) are causing this to come up.
This will help you find out the reason, since only 1 person is affected from our customer I have asked that person to perform these steps as he's a local admin on his Mac.
Whoever is reading, I have already provided the steps to fix it above.
The issue is certain legacy apps are causing it. So each person's use case will be different, start by turning off ALL the launchdaemons and reboot. You'll notice there won't be any cryptex disks on the desktop after a reboot.
This is a method of troubleshooting and to find the culprit.
In our customers case the reason was an old version of bitdefender...
Unfortunately, after sliding all of them off and rebooting, the cryptex volume still appears in Disk Utility...
Apart being annoying because it's there, it doesn't make any harm so, not sure I will follow the full procedure mentioned by @Todd G. Myers. Also, as I still have Ventura on my internal, I probably can't use Recovery to reinstall Sequoia on my external TB enclosure...
just did a fresh install of macOS 15.1- iv never had this before..
@etresoft
What would be an example of a 3rd party system modification app?
So, @Todd G. Myers, the strange cryptex volume disappeared after you’ve proceed with those steps?
Is "Creedence Cryptex"
Spying on us?
4 disks called "Creedence Cryptex" appeared on my desktop
