HowTo? do 'reverse encryption'

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What do I want to achieve?

For different apps I do need local access to the very same files in unencrypted and encrypted state.
I very much preferred having these files in unencrypted state on my disks.

What I know how to do:
Mount an encrypted source to a drive letter providing access to plain text files.
(i.e. saving everything in encrypted state and access plain text through a mounted drive)

What I'm looking for:
Mount an unencrypted source to a drive letter providing encrypted files.
(i.e. saving everything in plain text and access encrypted files through a mounted drive)

Has anyone got an idea how to achieve that?

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what is the use-case for that, what do you plan to do with the encrypted files?

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This feature has been requested before. It can be useful if you want to back up encrypted data using a 3rd party tool.

Alas, rclone does not support it at the moment.

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My use case: Transfer huge files to pCloud using pClouds tool (which does deltasync) and still having a fully 3rd-party-encrypted cloud storage - i.e. transfer changes of huge files instead of the whole huge file each time it changed.

I distrust proprietary software. Using Sandboxie Plus it's easy to completely isolate pCloud.exe (only r/o access to only a single directory) but I still have to feed it the encrypted data.

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might be able to write a script.

  1. create list of files to be copied
  2. feed that to pcloud app.

https://forum.rclone.org/t/swift-sync-checksum-calls-head-on-every-object-so-is-very-slow/30322/12

to get a list of files with both crypted and decrypted file names

rclone lsf crypt:zork --format=pe
file.ext;u4arutgi5ht4nrrfgpm0qppbng
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Thanks, but pCloud client requires a directory to monitor.

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