trying to mount location "not empty" error

Thank you for your question.

GEncfsM does not support non-empty mount directories because that usually means that the files in there were accidentally saved unencrypted. E.g. if the applications you edit your files with do autosaves or backup files and the stash got unmounted in the meantime you would end up with plain files saved in there.

Do you have a good reason why you have files in the mount directory?

Regards,
Moritz

Hi,

yes I think I have decent enough reason. The remote location is dropbox account and in order to sync the files to my computer and have them available throughout I used this method:

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/encrypt-your-private-dropbox-data-with.html

the files in the folder locally are encrypted as are the dropbox files on the server but of course I want to have the files available when I am not online.

Does this make sense to you?

Sorry, I don't understand what you try to accomplish. You are simply mounting a stash that is inside your Dropbox or am I wrong? I don't get why you would want to have files in the mount directory when the stash is not mounted as it has absolutely nothing to do with online or offline as the Dropbox folder is mirrored onto you PC and in that case could be mounted all the time anyway.

Ok I figured it out now, I cannot reuse the old directory ? The problem was that there was one (!) old file in that directory that prevented the mounting. I only figured that out after I stripped the manual mount away.