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So, I've been encrypting my online backups with AES 256 using 7zip. However, when I go to add a file to the old archive by opening it with 7zip and dragging the file I want to add into the 7zip window it is added, but not encrypted. I've been extracting my files and re-compressing them whenever I want to change them or add to them, but I'm hoping there is a better way to do this (either by encrypting the files when I add them to the archive or configuring them once they are in).
To be clear when I'm adding a new file to an old archive the old files stay encrypted but the new ones are not encrypted, and I want the ones I add to be encrypted also.
"by opening it with 7zip and dragging the file I want to add into the 7zip window it is added" - By doing this, you are creating a new 7zip unecrypted archive (temporary os directory), which replaces the existing one (if you give it the same name). If you want it encrypted, extract the contents to a direcotry, and create a new encrypted archive, from the a contents of that new directory. – Ramhound – 2016-09-20T20:57:21.877