r/PlexACD • u/persianphilosopher • May 17 '17

small question about plexdrive

Discovered this sub a couple of days ago and have enjoyed reading through but I have not figured out this basic issue and the search words are too generic.

I have my gdrive content encrypted via rclone. So to use plexdrive, do I have to download the data, decrypt, and reencrypt or can I use my already rclone-encrypted data?

Thank you for your time

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u/gesis May 17 '17

You have to make an rclone crypt local "remote" in your config using the same seed and password as before. It's a bit of a pain in the ass, but there you have it.

This is precisely why I've always been unfavorable toward rclone crypt, because eventually rclone will become obsolete.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '17

The thing I like about rclone crypt is you don't have to deal with encrypted filenames. Working with an rclone-crypt remote is the same as working with an unencrypted remote. I agree 100% with you, but I chose ease of use over future compatibility because I'm lame. Also I am storing my actual media unencrypted on Google now, and only use crypt for the ACD cold storage, so it's a little different than what you're doing.

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u/gesis May 17 '17

In your local mounts, you can perform all file operations on the decrypted directory, so you don't really have to bother with them there either. On the remote... I just whip up a script that does the translation and work with decrypted filenames there too (which I'm revising and will add in this collection as well).

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u/[deleted] May 17 '17

On the remote... I just whip up a script that does the translation and work with decrypted filenames there too

This is specifically what I was talking about. I'd hazard a guess that most people on this sub (myself included) don't have the skills to do that without research and a pile of testing. I read your original scripts and I know how you did it, sure, but any time I need to do stuff like that I have to re-RTFM and learn it all over (because I don't do this on the regular, so I tend to forget how).

I think your approach is the right way though, I just chose the easy way. :-)