Virtual Drive Encrypted or Not?

gdelozier

I'm new as of yesterday. Using Windows 10 and OneDrive. Files under OneDrive, both on my hard drive and the cloud are encrypted with the bc extension and will not open. Files in the virtual drive are not. I can go Boxcryptor virtual drive, in my case X:\Boxcrytor\OneDrive\Documents. The files have the green lock icon, but I can open and edit files without having to right click and decrypt.

When I installed yesterday I thought the files were encrypted and the file name added the word "decrypted" when I wanted to see the file and then added "encrypted" when I re-encrypted the file.

Question, are files in the virtual drive supposed to be encrypted? If so, why are my file not encrypted?

Peter Tak

That is working as designed. When you start boxcryptor and enter your password boxcryptor creates the virtual drive so you can access your files from any application on your computer. The boxcryptor app decrypts files "on the fly" when it is running so you don't have to do it manually. Your files are still stored encrypted. The virtual drive is only a means to access and decrypt the files in one single action.
As soon as you close the boxcryptor app (or logout from the app) the virtual drive will disappear as it is not a "real" drive.