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| Removable Drives & Backups Removable Drives Magic Folders does not hide folders on your removable drives because they would only be hidden on the machine which you used to hide them. They would NOT be hidden on other machines, regardless of whether those machines are running Magic Folders or not. That's why we created CD-Lock. It's specialized to create self-contained encrypted CDs (and other removable media such as DVDs, floppies, USB pen drives, etc..) that anyone can use simply by inserting the CD and entering the password, without having to decrypt the files first. CD-Lock is available at http://cd-lock.com Backups
If you want your hidden files to be included in your backups then select Configure/Disable Auto-Crypt for Backup/Restore at the main screen before starting your backup. Most (if not all) backup programs won't find files in your Private Folders unless you make them visible first. Therefore, if you need to backup the files in your Private folders make sure you make them visible before running your backup program. If you have multiple accounts there is no way to make all folders hidden by all accounts visible at the same time because each account is mutually exclusive. Therefore each user needs to be responsible for backing up their Private folders. Encrypted Magic Folders In addition to the above, files copied out of an encrypted folder are decrypted at the destination (otherwise they'd be unusable). This means your backups would contain decrypted versions of your encrypted files. To prevent this you can turn off Auto-Crypt (the automatic decryption/encryption of files) for your encrypted folders and leave the filenames scrambled. Then the files in your encrypted folders will get copied to the backup as they are on disk - encrypted with their names scrambled. To do this select Configure/Prepare for Backup at the main screen before starting your backup. Likewise, anything copied into an encrypted folder is encrypted, therefore you must Disable Auto-Crypt before restoring backups into your encrypted folders. NOTE: Any encrypted files open at the time Auto-Crypt is disabled will continue to be AutoDecrypted anyway, therefore it's best to reboot before selecting Configure/Disable Auto-Crypt for Backup/Restore. |