Crypt unencrypted files in Gdrive

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I have all my library uploaded in gdrive unencrypted.
Is there a way to crypt it directly in gdrive without downloading every file an reuploading crypted?
tnx

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rclone can do it for you on the fly, but it will involve downloading everything and uploading it. It won’t use any disk space doing this though.

I would move all the contents of your drive into a subdirectory, called “unencrypted”.

Make a remote called “drive” pointing at your google drive.

Make a crypted remote called “secret” pointing at “drive:encrypted”

Then do

rclone sync drive:unencrypted secret:

Make sure you use the latest beta if you try that as there was a problem with that scenario, now fixed.

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Tnx, i thought it was like this.
Doing what you said i will have 1 encrypted dir and 1 unencrypted after finished process. Right?

Doing
rclone sync drive:unencrypted secret:
is the same as doing:
rclone sync drive:unencrypted/. secret:/.
???

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That is correct. You don’t need the “.” with rclone - it assumes you want to copy the whole directory.

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Tnx for your help.
Do you think plex performance will be the same with encrypted or unencrypted files?

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Performance will always be better unencrypted. It’s a given as encryption adds some overhead, although not much.

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thanks very much, it worked great.
The only “problem” I found is that to process the files (download & upload them encrypted) is using my bandwidth :cry: which is crap.

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Hi @cere84,

As they say, TAANSTAFL – There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. The only way around that would require end-to-end encryption support on the cloud itself (and I don’t think it has, nor ever will have – specially on Google Drive, which thrives by analysing the data and therefore would need it unencrypted) and then you would have to handle your encryption key to the cloud provider – which I would think defeats the whole point of encrypting anything :wink:

Cheers,

Durval.

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indeed :slight_smile:

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HAHAHAHA I lol’ed at this!

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I saw there are 2 ways to crypt:
How to encrypt the filenames.

Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
1 / Don’t encrypt the file names. Adds a “.bin” extension only.
\ “off”
2 / Encrypt the filenames see the docs for the details.
\ “standard”

I used number 2.
But number 1 is a real crypt method? or just add a .bin at the end of the file?
I don’t like to much having all those strange names in my gdrive, so i wonder if i can use method 1. Does method 1 crypts my data and change hashes of files?
tnx

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Hello @fbrassin,

Good for you :wink:

The file’s data (ie, contents) will be encrypted, but not the file name… so if you have reason to keep the file name from disclosure, method 2 is your best option.

[quote=“fbrassin, post:11, topic:862”]
I don’t like to much having all those strange names in my gdrive, so i wonder if i can use method 1.[/quote]

You can use method 2 and keep them all in a subdirectory (eg, “encrypted_files”) off your GDrive “root”.

Yes, and yes.

Cheers,

Durval.

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Tnx, this is a great answer. :slight_smile:

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