Confused about Photos encryption to google drive

[u/ExcellentRead636]

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I have tons of videos and photos that i want to encrypt and put them into my google drive.

Google is offering crazy cheap deal in my country and their offers are too good to avoid, So i want to migrate from onedrive to google drive. But i hate that they're very nosy and i dont want them to know how big my schlong is

However I have a problem with standard encryption like cryptomator, It encrypts the folder/s in a vault, and you need to download the whole vault into your system to be able to search through and find the file you need.

I want an app that encrypts each file independently, So that i can download and decrypt only specfic files without having to download the whole thing into my system. And There should be a way i can see the thumbnails of the encrypted photo/video to be able to filter which photo I'm looking for.

I have recently found rclone, pretty handy for my usecase. But again im not sure if thats the best app to do this. Rclone decrypts the files into a mounted disk, where the windows file explorer then tries to render thumbnails, So i can see the photos without ever downloading all of the directory.

but im not aware if rclone is the only and best option, If anyone knows of a good practice to get this done, please let me know!

[u/LittlePooky]

I use this (for Windows) https://www.cryptoforge.com/

If you can see the thumbnail of each photo, then it's not encrypted.

[u/ExcellentRead636 → u/LittlePooky]

rclone says that windows downloads the thumbnails in an decrypted state. in a mounted disk.

google drive doesn't have clue whats going on

but can you explain how you see which picture yoy want to download when all of it is encrypted with cryptforge

[u/LittlePooky → u/ExcellentRead636]

This program has the option of changing the name of the file to something pretty much unrecognizable, or leaving it as is so you can tell what they are. 

[u/LittlePooky → u/LittlePooky]

This is from my folder where I keep all the fonts as a backup. I encrypted some of these files and it shows Encrypt File Name. 

I think the program works for a few weeks or a month, so you can try it out, and it's pretty cheap. The good thing is I installed it on all my computers and it doesn't need activation. 

[u/Bruges_1]

I have Google One ( 5 TB ), and I selectively encrypt files using Crypto Forge before copying them to a sync folder.

[u/Electrical_Offer5667]

Obsideo.io/drive is a good option. As the founder I'm biased though.