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title: "Best solutions for encrypting files in Dropbox"  
description: "Protect your Dropbox files with cloud encryption. Choose the best software to increase Dropbox security."  
author: "Alex Gresham"  
published: 2019-05-15  
updated: 2019-09-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/65325/best-solutions-for-encrypting-files-in-dropbox  
category: "cloud computing"  
tags: ["cloud computing"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Best solutions for encrypting files in Dropbox

CloudMounter allows you to mount Dropbox as a local drive to your Mac and get an easy [access](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81917/what-is-mobile-cloning-technology-which-gives-access-to-whatsapp-chats) to all the files stored there. With CloudMounter you will no longer worry about [cloud storage](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/108325/explain-the-concept-of-cloud-storage) security. The app [makes your](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11381/what-makes-your-business-better) files in Dropbox unreadable for the unwanted people. The [software](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/105988/how-field-ap-and-fieldtwin-software-can-help-managing-all-tasks-in-oil-and-energy-industry) uses the [Advanced](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1506/facts-that-prove-ancient-indian-science-was-incredibly-advanced) [Encryption](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1620/encryption-and-decryption-in-asp-dot-net) [Standard](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40649/what-helped-to-convince-roosevelt-to-break-up-standard-oil) (AES) with a 256-bit key length to ensure cloud [data protection](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/303929/what-is-data-protection-and-why-is-it-important). Dropbox encryption could be turned on either when you first open CloudMounter or whenever you need it, [as well as](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48044/who-won-the-wimbledon-singles-as-well-as-the-world-table-tennis-singles-crown) disabled, in the software preferences. If you need you can also enable encryption for a specific cloud storage or directory.

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