Retrace · Dragon Fractal

Support

retrace@dragonfractal.com

Email is the whole support system. There is no ticket portal and no account to log into, because Retrace has no accounts. Write to retrace@dragonfractal.com and a person reads it.

What to include

Retrace talks to servers we cannot see, so the useful details are the ones only you have:

What not to include

Never send a password, a private key, or the contents of a file you would not publish. We will never ask for any of them.

Hostnames and bucket names are usually fine to redact — the protocol and the message matter far more than the address.

Things worth trying first

"Sign-in was refused"

The server rejected every credential Retrace offered. If you are using a hardware key, check it is actually enrolled on that server: the public half is on the keys screen, and it has to be in the server's authorized_keys.

The host key changed

Retrace refuses the connection rather than asking you to accept it, which is deliberate. If you know why it changed — the server was rebuilt, say — forget the pinned key in Settings under Known hosts, then reconnect and check the new fingerprint against the server.

A transfer failed with "access denied"

That is the server's answer, not Retrace's. On S3 it usually means the credentials are scoped to a prefix and the destination is outside it — dropping onto a host row targets the bucket root, which scoped credentials often cannot write. Drop onto a folder inside the bucket instead.

A folder on the device is not listed

Android only lets an app read folders you explicitly pick. Use add a folder on the host list to grant one; the grant persists.

Reporting something that looks like a security problem

Write to retrace@dragonfractal.com with "security" in the subject and we will reply before doing anything else. Please do not open it publicly until we have had a chance to fix it.

Privacy

What Retrace stores and what it never sends is in the privacy policy. The short version: it has no backend, so there is nothing for us to look up about you — which is also why the details above have to come from you.