Decrypt single .md file

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Thanks, that really helped.

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Hi, this is a bit related to the thread so here it goes:

Joplin Desktop is failing to decrypt my dropbox synced notes, so I decided to download the folder and decrypt it locally with the joplin cli.

So from whatever I understand, these are the steps I took:

  1. joplin e2ee enable -p <password>
  2. joplin e2ee decrypt <path to file> -o <outpiut dir>

But this is giving me this error:

Invalid encryption identifier. Data is not actually encrypted? ID was:

When I do joplin e2ee status -v <file>

I get:

Encryption is: Enabled

So can anyone shed some light, what's going on?

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The decryption command you posted is not right. We need to see the actual command in order to help

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edited.

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"Invalid encryption identifier" means this particular file is either not encrypted or not a Joplin file. When you open it, how does the data look?

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Then How do you explain this:

Also this is the file's contents:

id: redacted
parent_id: redacted
created_time: 
updated_time: redacted
is_conflict: 
latitude: 
longitude: 
altitude: 
author: 
source_url: 
is_todo: 
todo_due: 
todo_completed: 
source: 
source_application: 
application_data: 
order: 
user_created_time: 
user_updated_time: 
encryption_cipher_text: {<cipher text redacted>}
encryption_applied: 1
markup_language: 
is_shared: 
share_id: 
conflict_original_id: 
master_key_id: 
type_: 1

I am trying to get the master key decrypted with my password, reading this in the codebase, it seams you are using sjcl's json API, but on that front I am also getting an error in nodejs repl. :sweat_smile:

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I just downloaded "Joplin" folder from Dropbox and used "filesystem" as a sync source.

I can see my notes now! you should document how the whole encryption thingy works though.

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see End-To-End Encryption (E2EE) | Joplin and Encryption | Joplin