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Glad to read that Charlie Brown could help you save your data!

As for re-setting the usb stick to be read-and-write, well ...
Worst case is, the drive is dying anyway, so you would need to replace it (buy a new one). But since you have saved your precious data now, you could also try and format ...

I second what Charlie Brown wrote above about working with an (backup-ed) image of the partition.

Just to expand on the problem: chepakwak , so you can unlock the LUKS partition successfully, however you cannot mount it, right?

What file system is sitting in that LUKS encrypted volume?
I would ...

I guess that you already used an encrypted /home with MX 21?

In that case, in the installer where you set up the partitions, find your encrypted /home partition in the listing (e.g. sda3, according to your post). Then right-click on that one and click Decrypt (or might be "open" - I'm just flying ...

I'm just sharing a few ideas, hoping it can help solve the issue.

… the system told me the settings could not be saved - and I can't say what those last changes were since I was doing so many. I had already copied all my files and directories from the backup into the new /home.
To me that sounds ...