Cannot encrypt archive?

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 13:39 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
> > I'm creating my first zip archive since upgrading from 16.04 to
> > 20.04, and I find there is no option in the archive manager to
> > encrypt.

Yes - it is really annoying how far 20.04 has dumbed Ubuntu down, for
no good reason that I can see. And how many changes were made, also for
no good reason. Not changing a file or directory name in place for
example, not having an "encrypt" option in the "compress" dialogue and
dropping tar.gz from the compression options - why?

But you don't have to open an existing archive to be able to create a
new one. Look in the applications list for "Archive Manager" and run
it. You can then drag and drop the desired files into the archive
manager. It will ask you whether you want to create an archive, and if
you say "yes", it will pop up the usual options - including a huge
range of compression options, and the option to encrypt (at least for
compression methods that have built-in encryption, like zip).

Regards, K.


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