Encrypted SD Card
- By svim
- Smartphones
- 5 Replies
HOPE THIS HELPS SAW ON ANOTHER POST:
Should anyone else come across this thread in the future,
Voila, I can see all my photos again. Perhaps encrypting the card is the wrong way to go and I should just be backing up photos daily, but I am certainly happy to hear anyone's full OPSEC plan for if their phone is lost or stolen.
- I mounted the encrypted SD card on my laptop
- Transferred everything off the card to a new folder on my laptop
- Formated the SD Card in ex-fat
- Put it back in my phone
- Encrypted the empty card
- Pulled it and mounted it to my laptop again
- Transferred the encrypted files back to the SD card
- Pulled it and put it back in my phone
- Decrypted the card
This is apparently a deceptive list of instructions, DO NOT attempt this. At best it will just fail, at worst you will end up deleting your photos. File transfers between different devices and encrypting the storage media don't work this way. Again, don't try this.





