S3Drive - iOS App How To Copy Files to Local

Hey Guys, thanks for your amazing App. I consider to buy it to use it as a sync for my KeePass and various files from my S3 space. At the moment I try to find out, how to use the app corrctly and set up a sync with an encrypted S3 drive which seems to work. Unfortunately I can only make the file available offline but have no idea where to find it in the ios file system. Is there anything I'm thinking wrong here? Also maybe another feature request: when encrypting with rclone I am able to set up encoded filenames and directories seperatly, in your app it is only available together. maybe a seperation would be nice to be more compatible to rclone. another one: encryption in rclone can be done with 2 passwords (e.g. password and salt) I would like to use this also in your app. So, thats enough for one post I guess, thanks in advance for your help

Hi @Currypaul, thanks for kind words. Offline files uses app internal location within iOS ecosystem. I am going to confirm with the team what location is it exactly and whether there are ways to access it externally. I've added a feature to refresh offline versions automatically: https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/refresh-offfline-versions (it's been sitting in the internal pipeline for quite a while). I am not sure if this is going to solve your needs, but we're not far from deploying feature to "Allow opening file and save it back directly to cloud": https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/allow-to-open-file-and-save-it-back It works so far on desktop and Android and we're porting it to iOS. Rclone 2nd password and salt are in our roadmap: https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/support-2nd-rclone-crypt-password https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/add-support-for-custom-rclone-salt "when encrypting with rclone I am able to set up encoded filenames and directories seperatly" Our aim so far was to keep things simple and with the least amount of options provide default "secure" workflow. We will be gradually adding up more advanced options to satisfy power users. To understand correctly. Would you like to control whether to encrypt directory names separately to encrypting file names ... or you talk about allow to set up "prefix" / vault locations (at the moment all encryption settings apply to all locations in the bucket).

In both cases whether file is offline or not, you can use: "Open" feature which will open file externally. From that point you shall be able to use e.g.: "Save to Files" iOS option. (edited)

Hi @Tom , thanks for the quick reply. "Rclone 2nd password and salt are in our roadmap:" Perfect, thank you "Our aim so far was to keep things simple and with the least amount of options provide default "secure" workflow." This sounds reasonable for me, thanks a lot for the explanation. I just wanted to ask, but yes, I'm encrypting everything, so it is enough in the current state Regarding "Allow opening file and save it back directly to cloud" this would be perfect for me. I would love to see that feature on ios to open and modify files I have on an S3 sync. Unfortunately the "open" feature does not work for me, as my files get an .bin extension when syncing via rclone without name encryption. so I need to download it and rename, what is not possible so easy. I will try again with an fully encrypted file, maybe it works then.

Currypaul

Hi @Tom , thanks for the quick reply. "Rclone 2nd password and salt are in our roadmap:" Perfect, thank you "Our aim so far was to keep things simple and with the least amount of options provide default "secure" workflow." This sounds reasonable for me, thanks a lot for the explanation. I just wanted to ask, but yes, I'm encrypting everything, so it is enough in the current state Regarding "Allow opening file and save it back directly to cloud" this would be perfect for me. I would love to see that feature on ios to open and modify files I have on an S3 sync. Unfortunately the "open" feature does not work for me, as my files get an .bin extension when syncing via rclone without name encryption. so I need to download it and rename, what is not possible so easy. I will try again with an fully encrypted file, maybe it works then.

If you get .bin extension it does look to me as if you weren't using the filename encryption for these files. This is the config that works with S3Drive: https://discord.com/channels/1069654792902815845/1069654792902815848/1135157727216279585 If filename encryption is off: https://rclone.org/crypt/#crypt-filename-encryption (default is standard), then the .bin suffix gets added. We don't really support stripping the .bin suffix, that's why in the config that we recommend we suggest (Discord link above) we suggest to disable it: https://rclone.org/crypt/#crypt-suffix Given that you already have some data, perhaps we could reconsider support for: .bin stripping for users which used the default setting before running it all up in compatibility with S3Drive. (edited)

Yes, I deactivated the file name encryption of my bucket to test the functionality of the app before I buy it. I will try to set my bucket up tithout the suffix, maybe it works better then. Thanks a lot for your help until this point