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Draft: Kleopatra: Add option to decrypt a file at the target location (instead of temp)
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Description

There is currently a configuration option to use the folder where the encrypted file is located instead of the temp / tmp directory for the partially decrypted files. The Registry key is DontUseTmpDir.

We'd like to add an option to set the use of the target directory instead.
This would be useful in the case of a large encrypted file on an external medium which one wants to directly decrypt to a network share.

The name of the current option is awkward in light of two possible alternative locations. Ideas for the name of the new option? Or would it be better to change the possible values for the current option?

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ebo created this object with edit policy "Contributor (Project)".
ebo triaged this task as Normal priority.Aug 13 2025, 12:40 PM

Note: We would need to handle possibly diverse error cases. A network share could be configured e.g. to not allow deletion for the user so that the temporary file can not be deleted.

ebo lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Low.Wed, Dec 17, 4:50 PM
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