All attachments are showing as locks

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*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Summary

All attachments are showing as locks.

Diagnosis

Errors similar to the following ones are shown in the atlassian-jira.log

1 2 3 4 5 2022-12-12 15:48:30,509+0000 https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-5309 ERROR xxxxx 948x2107825x1 1fvmz9o xxxxx /secure/QuickCreateIssue.jspa [c.d.j.plugin.license.LicenseChecker] Admin Info: The error is: license USER_MISMATCH 2022-12-12 15:48:30,528+0000 https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-5309 ERROR xxxxx 948x2107825x1 1fvmz9o xxxxx /secure/QuickCreateIssue.jspa [c.d.j.plugin.license.LicenseChecker] Admin Info: The error is: license USER_MISMATCH .... 2022-12-12 15:48:30,879+0000 https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-5287 ERROR xxxxx 948x2107839x1 1fvmz9o xxxxx /rest/greenhopper/1.0/xboard/issue/details.json [c.d.j.plugin.license.LicenseChecker] Admin Info: The error is: license USER_MISMATCH 2022-12-12 15:48:37,019+0000 https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-5124 ERROR xxxxx 948x2107867x1 1wt6nu8 xxxxx /browse/INT-2374 [c.d.j.plugin.license.LicenseChecker] Admin Info: The error is: license USER_MISMATCH

Cause

This issue is caused by the 3rd party app Encryption Plugin as we can see classes from the c.d.j.plugin.license.LicenseChecker package in the stack trace.

This plugin encrypts all of your attachments in Jira and if there is some license issue with the plugin the attachments are shown as locks.

Solution

Please fix the license issue and if the issue persists reach out to the plugin vendor Adaptavist.

Updated on March 20, 2025

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