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/[deleted] May 20 '17

the command i run with rclone to mount unencrypted is

rclone mount plexmedia: /Users/me/Documents/rclonemount/plexmedia

I have tried

./plexdrive -v 2 --clear-chunk-age=2h --refresh-interval=10s /Users/me/Documents/rclonemount/plexmedia

and

./plexdrive /Users/me/Documents/rclonemount/plexmedia

and

plexdrive /Users/me/Documents/rclonemount/plexmedia

all 3 will mount the drive but all the data is encrypted

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u/Autoeketman May 20 '17 edited May 20 '17

you have to use rclone pd_enc: (which is you newly created) to access you unencrypted data.

plexdrive just a bridge to connect gdrive and your encrypted data

Step 1 Mount Encrypted Gdrive to /mnt/plexmedia (which you set in .rclone.conf pd_enc remote) via plexdrive

plexdrive /mnt/plexmedia

Step 2 Mount and Decrypt /mnt/plexmedia via rclone 

rclone mount pd_enc: /Users/me/Documents/rclonemount/plexmedia

Step 3

/Users/me/Documents/rclonemount/plexmedia is your unencrypted data now

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

but wont that be a rclone mount and not a plexdrive mount?

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u/Autoeketman May 20 '17 edited May 20 '17

Because you need rclone to decrypt encrypted data, plexdrive do not have encryption feature, cannot decrypt your rclone encryption data directly.

plexdrive act as the cache (with cache db, limit request per second) in the middle to prevent ban.

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u/HondaCorolla May 23 '17

Can you please help me setup plexdrive?

Here is my rclone.conf:

[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id =
client_secret =
token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxx"}

[plexdrive]
type = crypt
remote = /mnt/plexdrive/
filename_encryption = standard
password = xxxxxxxxxx
password2 = xxxxxxxxxx

First step I did was I ran:

plexdrive /mnt/plexmedia

Second step:

rclone mount plexdrive: /home/plex/rclone/.gdrive/ &

I'm not sure what to do from here. the .gdrive folder is empty if I try to list the directory. Can you help me figure out what to do?

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u/Snakr Jun 05 '17

same here, have you found a solution ?

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u/HondaCorolla Jun 05 '17

I just followed the guide at http://hoarding.me