Nautilus
is the file manager created for GNOME, not a disk/data encryption backend. The context menu of nautilus
offers you a possibility to compress (and encrypt) folder via Archive Manager
(formerly: File Roller
) which is another graphical interface – the frontend for the archiving utilities such as tar
and zip
1 (the latter with encrypting abilities).
After successful encryption of the folder, you can decrypt it by clicking on Extract Here
in nautilus'
context menu (right-clique window), and typing the password into the dialog box invoked by the Archive Manager
.
Tip and hint – to be wise after the damage done without awareness – if I may: Never encrypt the important data without testing how the encryption/decryption works in the first place! You cannot cancel already finished encryption, only stop (cancel) the process (not applicable in this case), and order the software decrypt already encrypted portion of data.
1 File Roller at sourceforge.net
ls ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/
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