I can't get Cryptomator to work with either of my cloud providers - can someone take a look at my setup and give me some advice?

[Michael]

Hi.
You can find licence agreements on the Personal Backup site in the download section. It is free, but not open source. For further questions, please have a look at the FAQ or the online-help there. Again: you can use any backup program you feel comfortable with.

Its hard for me to follow your thoughts when you describe your process.
I guess there’s a general misunderstanding how cryptomator works.
Its simple as that:

1. create a vault in your local DropBox folder. Please read this guide thoroughly.
2. configure your backup software to make a backup of your folders “My Documents” etc. into your vault (in the guide, please see point 5). This means: the backup target is your virtual drive (cryptomator vault). The backup source is you “My Documents” folder.

@cr7

The rough idea I have now is that you create a Cryptomator vault,

yes.

@cr7

copy over the local documents stored in My Documents that you want synced to said Cryptomator vault

no and yes. you can do this manually, but if you prefer to have an automatic process for this: use a backup software for this step.

@cr7

put that vault into the sync folder designated by Syncthing or Personal backup (or any other file backup tool)

Not at all. You don’t have to copy any cryptomator files locally.

@cr7

and then create a copy of that sync folder and place it in the cloud.

At this point I’m out
Why do you want to do this? Your encrypted files are already in the cloud as you have puttet the cryptomator vault into your local DropBox folder. The DropBox Client will automatically put the files into the cloud (encrypted)

@cr7

That doing all this will make it so that any changes you make to the local documents stored in My Documents will be synced with your Cryptomator vault. I’m trying to find a way to continue working within the My Documents folder, as I’ve done for many years, rather than working straight from a Cryptomator vault or the cloud.

This is exactly what you can achieve (without copying files manually) with the 2 steps above.