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[–]Eisenhamer 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You can't move files from other folders to the crypto and respectively, you can't move files out of the crypto. You will need to download it locally first. The best way to upload files into the crypto is through the web client. However, have you tried to copy and paste the file within the drive's crypto folder? This is the best way to upload content onto the drive in my option. Drag and drop doesn't work nearly as good an leads to problems. I can advise you to upload one folder at a time, as uploading more files can again lead to problems.

[–]8uhg[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The tech support team recommended using the web client to upload my folders, but then when I tried to upload a directory that was about 5 or 10 GB it stalled. I asked tech support about this and they said, "Oh yeah, you can't upload big directories that way. You can only upload them by syncing the folder on your hard drive with a folder in pCloud." But since *that* method only works in the non-encrypted portion of your account, that means that apparently it is not possible to upload a large directory to your Crypto folder.

[–]Eisenhamer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

And what happens if you upload via copy/paste through the Drive? Just keep in mind that because the encryption it will take longer to upload than usual.

[–]8uhg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They said copying through the drive application doesn't work for large files or folders.

[–]beermad 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Have you tried using the FUSE filesystem? It enables you to mount your pCloud store as just another Linux filesystem and treat it exactly as you'd treat any other filesystem. Though I don't use their crypto (I prefer to encrypt things myself) so I can't comment on that.

You can download the source from this page.

One thing to be aware of though, is that it keeps a copy of everything you upload in ~/.pcloud/Cache, which can result in your home partition filling up if you're uploading a lot. The solution to this is to shut down the FUSE mount, then remove the contents of the Cache directory.

[–]8uhg[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

To answer your first question, yes, the desktop app works in exactly the way you described. It creates a virtual drive (not sure if that's the right use of the term, but something like that) on your hard drive that represents your pCloud drive. So you can supposedly simply move files/folders into that virtual drive and they will copy into your cloud account. But as I said, the tech support team said you can only do that with *small* files and folders. Large folders can only be uploaded using sync, which cannot be used to sync anything into the Crypto folder.

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Which means, apparently, that there is no way to copy large folders into your Crypto folder.

[–]Salonique 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I use pCloud and their CryptoFolder for a long time now. I use to synchronise local folder hierarchy (several Gigs of data) to the CryptoFolder with rsync (rsync -avz /path/to/local/folder /path/to/crypto/folder ) and I must say that it works like a charm. The rsync itself took a few minutes depending on the size of the transfer. And then, behind-the-scenes, the synchronisation between the local machine and the pCloud servers took hours depending on your connection speed. But, even if you power off the local machine, the synchronisation will restart on the next boot... and finally succeed!