Amazon Cloud Drive - without local copy

4ster

Hello everyone,

being fairly new to boxcryptor I'm trying to get my secure cloud using Amazon Cloud Drive. (https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/post/boxcryptor-now-supports-amazon-cloud-drive/)

So far everything works fine, however, I'm encountering the following problem:
The Amazon Cloud Drive app does not provide a "network folder" like Dropbox or OneDrive, but instead synchronizes everything to my local hard drive.

Getting Boxcryptor to work with Amazon Cloud Drive without having a local (encrypted) copy is my goal, but I only found the following two solutions:
- use the portable version of Boxcryptor, like it was done before Amazon released the mentionned software (apparently really slow)
- use some software called "Gladinet" mentionned in a lot of older blogposts around the web (isn't available anymore?!)

I would really appreciate if someone could share a working solution for this problem!

Also, why isn't the desktop version using amazons api to access the cloud directly like the portable version does?

Borg

I use NetDrive, https://netdrive.net. They work with many other cloud storage providers too. They'll give you a 30-day trial. The software is only $50.

4ster

Thanks Borg!

That would actually be a possible solution.

However I find it a bit weird that this isn't a feature of boxcryptor itself, since it already has the possibility to emulate a drive...

Also I just realized that this problem actually concerns most cloud providers!
Does everyone actually keep a mirror on every desktop they use boxcryptor on?
There are advantages to it (like faster loading) but on portable devices with small SSDs (I for example only have 256 GB of storage) it's simply unpossible.

I'd rather pay for a boxcryptor license (which personally at the moment would only give me the benefit of file name encryption - actually an integrated open source project) and get those features than installing and paying for yet another software...