I have come to my Dropbox to see that all my files have been encrypted with .crypdbd on the end, because I do not have a paid Dropbox account, I can only do 1 at a time and even that is not successful as I have thousands of invoices to recover, my question is, can I integrate One Drive with Quickfile !
Thank You
Vince Field
Hi @Vincent,
If you find that dropbox isn’t working for you, then you may find that emailing your receipts into the receipt hub may be easier for you?
There’s several things to address here I think. The .crpdb, is this a typo, do you mean .cryptdb? If so this is not a Quickfile or Dropbox issue, somethhing else is encrypting your files. I’m not sure what doing one at a time (doing what?) and having a paid Dropbox account means, what correlation is there (or do you think there is)?
As for the Drive integration, there is no native integration but I have got Drive syncing with Dropbox, and then Quickfile although sounds like this won’t work for you if you have something else encrypting your Dropbox files. I think you want to get to the bottom of your original issue first anyway, I don’t think switching to Drive is necessarily going to help you here anyway.
Sounds like you have an encryption software running on your pc but you’ve linked your Dropbox to the encrypted file path. For example I have boxcryptor linked to my one drive account.
These files can’t be decrypted unless done so via your pc first so I’d guess that unless you have a folder linked which doesn’t encrypt the files it’s not going to work as an integration to quickfile.
Hello Lurch,
To explain myself better, because I do not have a paid Dropbox account (just the standard free one) I can only roll back the encrypted files one at a time, if I change to a paid Dropbox package you can do complete folders (it’s called rewind)
Could you confirm that the files that I have already uploaded to Quickfile will not be encrypted ?
Thank You
Hi @Vincent
Any files that you’ve uploaded to QuickFile are copied to your QuickFile account, so these are independent of any files in your Dropbox account.
Ah, I see what you mean now, thanks!
Quickfile won’t encrypt any files you upload.
However, if you are encrypting files locally why do you think Drive will be any different to Dropbox? What are you using to sync and also what are you using to encrypt? If you are encrypting your entire local drive then this will obviously be encrypting the Dropbox folder, which would also happen with Drive as it basically works the same way. If you are rolling back files in your Dropbox account then it seems like encryption isn’t an issue for you on these files so you would be better off just not encrypting them in the first place.
Sorry, I need to explain myself again, I got to work last week and a hacker had got into our system and encrypted every single file on all the computers in the building (networked) including my Dropbox and One Drive accounts, he then sent me a ransom threat saying I must pay him in Bitcoins otherwise he will release all my data (which he said he has a copy on his private servers) to the rest of his hacker friends if I do not pay, he asked me to send him a file he had encrypted to prove he could un-encrypt it, he wants £3500 to do the rest, so this is why I asked if the files I have already uploaded to Quickfile are safe (not encrypted)
Vince
Anything already uploaded to QuickFile would be a copy and independent of your Dropbox account.
The process is this; you save a document to your Dropbox receipts folder. Quickfile takes a copy of this, places it on their own server and provides this for your use within Quikfile. This is also copied to the ‘imported’ folder. So anything that has already been uploaded to Quickfile will be on the Quickfile servers in an unencrypted format.
If the source folder had all the files renamed this then probably triggered another upload, but there would be no need to rename/repair all of these as they should already be on the Quickfile servers waiting to be tagged unless you happened to get hacked in the 15 minutes between you uploading something to Dropbox and Quickfile picking it up.
Still not sure how using One Drive would help with any of this though if that too contains only encrypted files?
It was very easy to rollback the files in One Drive (which I did) but not so easy using a free Dropbox account
Gotchya. Hopefully Quickfile already has all the files so you shouldn’t need to do this.
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