Moving encrypted files from another Google Drive account

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I encrypted my files with crypt to Google Drive.

Then I moved those files to another Google Drive account using the 'Shared Drives' feature, with which you can basically move TBs of data in seconds between Google Drive accounts.

I made a new crypt remote for the new account.

My question now is, will I be able to access the encrypted files from the new crypt? Or is that going to be a problem?

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hello,
if you create a new remote with the same crypt settings, you should be able to acesss encrypted files in the new crypt

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Thanks.

But how is that possible?

Say someone gets access to my encrypted files, wouldn't they just bey able to make a new crypt and decrypt my files to access them?

Not sure what I'm missing...

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when you create the crypted remote, you are asked for two passwords.
all folders/files are encrypted using those two passwords.

so if someone got hold of an encrypted file then that person would need to

  • know that the file was encrypted with rclone.
  • know the two passwords to decrypt the file.
  • create a remote using rclone.
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Oh makes sense.

I used the same password with both crypts, so that is why I was able to decrypt the files from the new crypt.

Thanks

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if you any other questions, let me know.

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