Quicken 2013 & Boxcryptor

is14fun

I am using DropBox to share my Quicken files between two computers. This works just fine until I decided to encrypt these files for security. Now, Quicken does not recognize them and won't open them. The only way I seem to be able to use them is to ask Boxcryptor to unencrypt them each time I want to view my files. This means the files are not encrypted while I am working on them and security is lost. Is there a way to set Quicken to open these files without manually unencrypting them?

dutchviking

It sounds like your reading from the original "Dropbox" folder into quicken, instead of the X:/Dropbox/ folder under "My Computer". The X:/ drive is your boxcryptor drive where you can access all you files as if they were unencrypted. Your original Dropbox folder now only contains encrypted and original files. I am assuming you used the default method of installing Boxcryptor though, so its possible you have other issues if you changed any installation options. I'm not a Boxcryptor expert though, but that's what it sounds like to me.

Cheers

dutchviking

I should also mention that this assumes you're using a Windows based machine.

Cheers

Gustav

Hi is14fun,

like dutchviking already said, it sounds like you are trying to open the files in the Dropbox, not in the Boxcryptor drive.

@dutchviking you were right ;).

Greetings
Gustav

mrriordan@earthlink.net

I am having same issue using quicken 2013 on a windows 8.1 surface pro 2 tablet. I am trying to open my qdf file from x:\boxcryptor\skydrive\...\quicken_data_encrypted. Quicken does not see the qdf file. Quicken finds the file just fine from my windows 7 laptop (same location). Boxcryptor did give me a message from the tablet that the files had to be made 'available offline' so I made the entire folder available offline. Now, it can find the qdf BACKUP files but still does not see the main qdf file.

Would be interested in any other suggestions.

is14fun

Let's see if I have this right. I have DropBox and Boxcryptor (X) drive. I want to share files between a laptop and a desktop (both windows 8.1). I want my files in dropbox to be encrypted but I want to be able to open these files from their original application (Quicken, Office etc.) To do this I put the laptop data files into Boxcryptor (X drive) Dropbox folder, right? These files are then automatically put into Dropbox as encrypted files. On the desktop, I make a Boxcryptor (x drive) and open the encrypted files with its originating application (Quicken, Office, etc.) Do I have this right? Will the files in the Boxcryptor drive on the desktop be encrypted or decrypted?