Volume creation tab (Encryption rule)

The information on the Volume creation tab relates to the hardware of the drive to be encrypted:

• Keep existing data: Select this option if you want DriveLock to keep and encrypt all unencrypted files. DriveLock creates a temporary container in the user’s profile on the computer’s hard drive, copies all existing files from the drive to this container and then moves this container to the removable drive. You can also specify that this temporary folder is created in a place you specify (option "Use custom local temporary folder during volume creation").

• Copy DriveLock Mobile Encryption to unencrypted part: You also have the option of specifying whether the Mobile Encryption Application (MEA) should be copied to removable media during automatic encryption. This allows using it even on computers where DriveLock is not installed. In addition, an Autorun.inf file can be created, in which user-specific contents can also be configured.

• Use custom local temporary folder during volume creation: If you want to transfer existing data on the flash drive, you can specify a directory here to create the directory with the temporary container.

• Hide encrypted container file: If this option is enabled, the EEDATA.DLV file will be marked as "Hidden".

• Automatically reformat file systems that support no more than 4 GB to exFAT or NTFS: This setting only affects the file system of the connected device due to the file size restrictions of FAT/FAT32 to < 4 GB. For this reason, USB sticks are automatically reformatted to exFAT or NTFS to ensure maximum utilization of the storage space for the container file.

  Use quick format: Quick formatting is used by default.

  The MEA now supports exFAT-formatted containers for read and write access on all supported operating systems (Windows, macOS and Linux)