Can I safely save the encrypted rclone config file without the password?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I’ve recently encrypted my rclone config file using the option “s) Set configuration password”

Before this encryption, I had saved on Bitwarden a secure note with the rclone config file copied and pasted.

Now, after the encryption, the same file has a lot of encrypted gibberish (this is the first phrase: # Encrypted rclone configuration File)

It is my understanding that I could save this file, and if I had to hard reset my mac, all I would need to do is copy the encrypted rclone config file into another machine and restore it within the rclone terminal by re-using the original password.

I'm asking here to have a confirmation that my understanding is correct or I am missing something

In short, I’m asking if I can save the encrypted rclone config file and delete the old unencrypted rclone config file in Bitwarden

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

. rclone v1.69.1

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

GoogleDrive,Dropbox,OneDrive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

Paste command here

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

Paste config here

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

Paste  log here

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confirmed.
the config file is a simple text file and is portable.
can use the same config file on windows, linux, mac, android, termux, etc...

that is up to you. but always a good idea to keep backups of the config file.