I've Created a MESS Moving from Dropbox to Google Drive

mattj88

Hi -

I created a nasty mess moving files out of Dropbox and into a new Google Drive installation.
The short story is that many of the files are encrypted and are not viewable in the new boxcrypter folder in my Google Drive folder. I did this several months ago and was frustrated, so I had to give up on it at that time and I'm now getting back to trying to figure it all out.

I had initially made a mistake moving the files from my Dropbox folder, not the Boxcrypter Drive. Then I was required to upgrade to Boxcryptor 2.0 in the middle of the move to Google Drive. Then, I was also using a custom folder name/location for the files in both Dropbox and the Google Drive.

Ultimately, I landed on an installation where the whole Google Drive installation was excrypted, not just the new "Boxcryptor Classic.bc" folder. Also, somehow I think I ended up with multiple encryption keys for different installations.

I'm wondering if there is a way to decrypt files on an individual basis somehow? I'm sure I still have all the encryption keys written down, not sure which are which necessarily, but I have them. I also have all the passwords.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Matt

mattj88

Oh, also, many of the files in the un-encrypted folders ended up encrypted, and the ones in the encrypted folder are NOT encrypted. Ugh.

mattj88

Also, my encrypted folder says "Boxcryptor Classic.bc" so I'm guessing I only upgraded to Classic from my 1.X version. ?? Not sure though. I may have had 2.0 in there somewhere too.

mattj88

Holy Moly! I think I figured it out. I have a lot of work to do, but I think I found that I can swap in the various .encfs6.xml files into the various encrypted folders until I get it to load properly and read the files. I seem to have so many to choose from though.

Also, I learned that when I created backup copies of the encryption key files (I seem to have both .encfs6.xml and keyfile.bcx - what is the difference?) I changed the names of the files and that is why I couldn't get the folders to load. Note to self - don't do this! :)

I'm wondering if I actually managed to create an encrypted folder within another encrypted folder?? Is this allowed?

I didn't realize at the time that the encryption key file is is at the base of the encrypted folder itself. When using Google Drive and Dropbox, I somehow ended up with these .xml files in both my Google Drive folder AND my "Boxcryptor Classic.bc" folder (or even my old "Encrypted Files.bc" folders - I was also creating custom names for the folders at one point).

Ok, I'll keep worming to see if I can reconnect each of the appropriate folders with the correct encryption key. Then, I'll copy all the decrypted files into a new folder and then once all are unencrypted, I will re-encrypt the entire folder and be done with it!

Keep your fingers crossed!

mattj88

I also ran into this error:

"Error loading configuration file:

Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1."

I also noticed that the xml file itself was encrypted and could not be viewed in the notepad application.

Did I somehow encrypt my encryption key file? :)