Feature Request / Help: Sync and decrypt cloud folder to local dir (hybrid backup)

div1

Has anyone an idea how to do this?:

I have an encrypted Boxcryptor-Folder in my virtual drive:

e.g. Q:\Dropbox\Documents_encrypted

I want to (automatically) sync and decrypt this folder to a local directory for the purpose of a hybrid backup.

e.g. C\Users\username\Documents\Documents_decrypted

Any hint/idea would be welcome!

div1

On a second question: If i manually copy files from the encrypted virtual drive to a dir on the local harddrive it seems that the files are decrypted and then copied. I'm just a little confused, since on my boxcryptor virtual drive encrypted files are displayed in GREEN font in the windows explorer. When i copy/decrypt(?) them to a local dir they STAY GREEN!?

div1

oh, well. thanks for the quick reply, again. guess i'm clearer now about going "unlimited"

Ruobin

got the same problem here. If I copy from the virtual (encrypted) drive a file to a local folder the file names REMAIN TO BE GREEN (as if they were encrypted). However, they are not encrypted, which is ok, except the green colour of the file's name

Robert

Regarding the hybrid backup:
You can use any sync tool for this purpose (e.g. built-in robocopy in Windows) to Sync Q:\Dropbox\Documents_encrypted with C:\User\...\Documents_decrypted

Regarding the green font:
Actually the file is still encrypted on the local folder - but with Windows' EFS instead of Boxcryptor. The Encrypting File System (EFS) is a windows feature that provides file system-level encryption. EFS was introduced with Windows 2000.

If you copy or move a file from the Boxcryptor Drive to another location on Windows 7, Windows Explorer is applying the Encrypted attribute of the source file also to the target file. The consequence is that the target file will be encrypted by Windows with EFS. Note that this only applies to Windows Explorer. If you copy a file e.g. using the command line, the Encrypted attribute is not set on the target.

We recommend to disable EFS if you don't need it and updated our installer to disable it for the user if he wants to. We have more information about Boxcryptor and EFS in our documentation:

https://secomba.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=20938796

Best regards,
Robert

Ruobin

after switching off EFS it's working as supposed
thx