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Kleopatra: Add recursive folder decryption
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Original report was:

Right click on folder containing one or more encrypted files and select Decrypt or Decrypt and Verify. Request fails with message "Error returned by the GnuPG user interface: Invalid argument"

The idea here is that if you select a folder and then right click it for decryption, Kleopatra creates a list of the encrypted files in this folder (identified through gpgme_data_identify) and then asks the user if she really wants to decrypt them all. In case of yes, it would just start a job for each of the files like we already do if you e.g. switch into a folder and select all files and then decrypt them.

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Version
3.1.15

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zorvek created this task.Feb 23 2021, 8:15 PM
werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Apr 15 2021, 9:10 AM
werner added projects: Info Needed, gpg4win, Support.
werner added a subscriber: werner.

Please tell us more details on how we can replicate your problem. Which Windows version, any non-standard software installed, non-standard installation direcories etc. You may also provide the output of

gpgconf --show-version

which you need to run in a shell (Windows command processor, cmd.exe). To put the output into a file use

gpgconf --show-versions >gnupg-version.txt

and attach that file to this report.

cesar.portilla added a subscriber: cesar.portilla.May 18 2021, 11:13 PM

I have the same message when i try to decrypt files larger than 1.5GB in size; i atached the report "gpgconf --show-version"

gnupg-version.txt887 BDownload

Thank you.

werner removed a project: Info Needed.May 19 2021, 2:49 AM

reading your report again: You clicked on a folder and expected that all encrypted files in this folder will be decrypted? That is unfortunately not supported.

zorvek added a comment.May 19 2021, 4:47 AM

Then let's get it in there. It's pretty easy to traverse a directory.

werner edited projects, added Feature Request; removed Support, Bug Report.May 19 2021, 9:50 AM
aheinecke added a subscriber: aheinecke.May 19 2021, 2:21 PM

I actually agree that this makes sense. I mean at least Kleo could say: "Hey we have detected 50 files that are encryped in this folder tree, do you really want to decrypt them all?"

aheinecke renamed this task from Decrypt Folder Fails to Kleopatra: Add recursive folder decryption.May 19 2021, 2:25 PM
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aheinecke lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Wishlist.
aheinecke updated the task description. (Show Details)

I have allowed myself to edit this task to more reflect what this is about. Although the error is of course in my opinion more of a bug because it is so bad but I would rather fix it with this feature.

cesar.portilla added a comment.May 19 2021, 9:12 PM

I did a new test and found that if it is a single file regardless of disk size, no error appears, but when there are multiple files in a single encrypted folder with a size greater than 1.5GB, the error occurs. Traverse a directory like Zorvek and Aheinecke wrote would be an optimal solution or at least some alert messsage to be aware of the action no supported.