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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and I'd like to encrypt files (and the filenames as well) with Archive Manager. Unfortunately I cannot do it since the option to do so is greyed out.

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Is there any solution to this?

Thank you!

DankyNanky
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Andree Ajawaila
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  • Where is this file located? I'd *guess* it's a permission on the file, or file location. (Ignore that, I looked at the image again...) What you *could* try as a workaround is `gpg` to test encrypting the file: `gpg -c purplesky2.png` – DankyNanky Apr 18 '20 at 14:01
  • Tried that, it didn't work. gpg -c purplesky2.png gpg: can't open 'purplesky2.png': No such file or directory gpg: symmetric encryption of 'purplesky2.png' failed: No such file or directory I was hoping that I could do this via the Archive Manager, not the Terminal. Unless of course, terminal's the only way. – Andree Ajawaila Apr 18 '20 at 16:45
  • Terminal isn't the only way - but you'd need to `cd /home/andree/Picutres` for that command to work... :) Also (and this is only *theoretical* but I don't *know* if you can do this on `.tar.gz` - can you try another file type?) – DankyNanky Apr 18 '20 at 16:51
  • https://postimg.cc/0Mk691BQ https://postimg.cc/7GK56tFN Hi, I tried the 'cd' command first and it didn't work too. I tried to match the exact filename and it didn't work either. FYI, I don't want other types of archive because I want to use either. rar or .zip formats for this. My family mostly uses Windows and not other OS and I want them to open encrypted archives without switching OS :D – Andree Ajawaila Apr 19 '20 at 05:05
  • Weird - I attempted to same method as you, and using `.tar` doesn't allow me to access this information via the GUI, but other formats do. All the examples I found [pipe the tar file to gpg](https://gist.github.com/da-n/212fc19c85d81bb33272f39a5a08dedb) as opposed to the GUI method - not sure if a limitation - but [here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/95920/encrypt-tar-gz-file-on-create) is a good example. – DankyNanky Apr 19 '20 at 07:58
  • "FYI, I don't want other types of archive because I want to use either. rar or .zip formats for this." - Change the format in the GUI to this then? Not `.tar.gz`? Besides, 7Zip can handle it IIRC. – DankyNanky Apr 19 '20 at 07:58

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