Unable to encrypt Team disk in Google Drive File Stream

tomas.kuba

Scenario: Windows 10, Google Drive File Stream (G:) + Boxcryptor free (X:). I want to encrypt the Team drive 'Kancelar' I created recently. The Team drive is empty and I have full rights to it. When I right click on the 'G:\Team drives\Kancelar' and select from the menu Boxcryptor -> Encrypt, the operation fails with the message:

Error during encryption.
The encryption was aborted or failed but the new folder '\Google Drive File Stream (G)\Team drives\Kancelar_encryptet' could not be deleted. Please delete it manually.
Please delete the new folder manually. Your existing files have not been modified.

The problem is in the default Boxcryptor behavior. When I ask Boxcryptor to encrypt folder XXX it creates a new folder XXX_encrypted and copy the encrypted data there. But that is something Drive File Stream client does not allow on the team drives level - team drives appear as folders to Windows but they can't be created, renamed or deleted.

The solution could be to prevent Boxcryptor to rename the folder (or to be exact: to create a new one with "_encrypted" ). But there is no such option in Boxcryptor settings.

Did anyone succeed in such scenario?

Yasmin

Hello tomas.kuba,

first of all, the suffix _encrypted/_decrypted are appended when one is doing a manual encryption (via context menu).

Let me give you the technical explanation here:

When you encrypt a folder via the right-click context menu, this is what happens in simplified terms:
1. An encrypted folder of folder A will be created (A_encrypted).
2. Now each folder and each file will be copied and encrypted on the fly.
3. As soon as every file/folder has been encrypted successfully, all files and folder A will be deleted (each file one by one).

The suffix "_encrypted" is added to avoid syncing errors.
This is stated within the notification displayed when the encryption has been successful.
You can rename the folder as you like, after your cloud provider finished syncing all the data.

On the other hand, team folders can't be encrypted.
Create a new encrypted folder in your team folder and start with it.

Best,
Yasmin