Foldershare and Truecrypt

I'd like to share an encrypted file with all my foldershare computers.

The problem is: accessing the encrypted file (I use truecrypt but i
guess this could apply to any) does not change the modified date or
size.

So Foldershare doesn't think anything has changed and does not
propagate the file.

Anyone have ideas?
- maybe I could "touch" the file. Is there a dos equivalent of the
touch command?

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:46:39 -0800 (PST), USP45 <nguyenalext@xxxxxx>
wrote:
If you make an empty file called say EMPTY and your encrypted file is
called FILE, then "copy FILE/b + EMPTY NEWFILE" will clone FILE to NEWFILE
but with a current datestamp. You can then do whatever deleting and
renaming are needed if NEWFILE should end up with the name FILE.

(Please test this safely and keep backups of valuable data at risk.)

There are newsgroups alt.msdos.batch and alt.msdos.batch.nt where experts
can give you better informed advice than I am able on batch files with
complex needs under DOS COMMAND.COM and nt's cmd.exe respectively.

Tony

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:46:39 -0800 (PST), USP45 <nguyenalext@xxxxxx>
wrote:
I found this which may be helpful:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....b5b9bf16?hl=en

Tony

Awesome, thanks.
Here's another:
filetouch.exe

On a side-note a couple others I found of interest from a general
utils perspective: ls.exe grep.exe nmap.exe tail.exe which.cmd

Anthony R. Gold wrote:

The actual solution to the problem is to disable the 'preserve
timestamp' option from within TrueCrypt (unless plausible deniability
is an actual issue for you). This way FolderShare can pick up the
change.

I use Axcrypt, and these synch without any problem. Different, I realise, but
perhaps of use.
Cheers

"USP45" wrote:

Correct. You will need to do this for other services such as Mozy, Synctoy,
etc which do not actually check the file but rather the date/time stamps.

For the reocrd this works just fine with even very large files. I did a
"poor man's offsite backup" this way for a client by batch filing a mount TC
file, NTBackup to the mounted drive, dismount. This kept the data inside the
TC file secure so the offsite PC did not have to be totally secure.

"USP45" wrote: