I’m using Cryptomator to run over Google drive (paid version 2TB). Cryptomater allows me to ensure Google cannot access ALL my info for their own purposes. It’s been working well for about a month.
However this morning I received this pop up message from Google Drive. Files not synced 5 items couldn’t be synced and were moved to the “Lost and Found” folder. To stop seeing this message, move the files out of “Lost and Found”.
I located the files at (C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Google\DriveFS\117341841125389699912) but as you can imagine they are encrypted, so I have no idea what these files are.
How do I create a small drive to decrypt these.
I tried copying the dvault and key etc info over to a folder with the lost files in a format similar to the vault, but it didn’t work.
I tried copying these files as a folder back into the main encrypted database, in the hopes that they’d just get decrypted, but that didn’t work either.
I was hoping someone could assist in telling me what the methodology is to take a small number of files and decrypt them separate from the large database, or to merge them back.
There is none. You always have to find the exact storage path where the files belong in the original vault. Otherwise they cannot be decrypted.
Spontaneous my first idea would be to compare the files that are stored online with the files on your local machine. As some are not synced, there should be a difference. You can use winmerge for example to do this. An other way is to compare the content of your online vault with your local vault, and the detect the path of the encrypted files as soon as you can see which file in the vault is missing. (Personally I would try option 1 first).