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Damian Lewis2020-02-26 17:56:36
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Damian Lewis, 2020-02-26 17:56:36

How to open encfs encrypted files in Plasma Vault?

KDE Plasma has such a wonderful program {widget} Vaults designed to encrypt files in encfs and cryfs. There was one problem. What to do if I reinstall the system or, for example, transfer encrypted encfs files from another system. How can these files be opened in Vaults? It does not have a function to add already encrypted files. There is only a function to create a new one. By default, encrypted files are stored in /home/User/.local/share/plasma-vault/
I tried to add encrypted files from another system there, but it does not see them. Let's say we create an encrypted folder in the Vaults program itself, make a copy, and then delete it in Vaults. If you transfer the copy back to /home/User/.local/share/plasma-vault/, the program still does not see them.

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Damian Lewis, 2020-02-26
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I didn’t find anything about this in Runet, but English-language sites have an answer. It turns out that there is a config file along the path /home/User/.config/plasmavaultrc.
Here you can write everything in it. Including folder path. But in order for the added data to be displayed in Vault, you need to restart the session or reboot.
What is the result:
1. By default, files are encrypted in the /home/User/.local/share/plasma-vault/ folder
2. By default, the mount folder is /home/User/Vaults/"Our folder". You can choose any when creating a "container".
3. There is a settings file along the path /home/User/.config/plasmavaultrc. You can make changes to this file and add already encrypted encfs and cryfs data that you transferred from another device. You can also change the paths to your own by first transferring the data to the desired folder.

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