[Features Request] Preserve file timestamps when encrypting/decrypting

[H-Sorkatti]

Hello there.

Thank you for the nice app.
I'd like to suggest 2 important modifications:

1- Maintain the original modification date of the files before they are encrypted in the specified container.
Currently once you add (encrypt) the file into the container folder, its metadata is overwritten by the new creation date.

2- Execute long running operations like mounting/encryption/decryption as foreground services.
Some android phones manufacturers have very aggressive battery optimization techniques running in the background. In my samsung phone, I cannot for example, leave DroidFS in the background while encrypting or decrypting a moderately large number of files, as it will most certainly be stopped. Setting the app battery usage as unrestricted did not help. Same can be said for mounting containers. If I send the app to the background, it would most certainly be dismounted after a while.

Thanks.

[hardcore-sushi]

Maintain the original modification date of the files before they are encrypted in the specified container.

Yes, this would be nice to have. I think it would still be better to let the user decide with a switch in the settings.

Execute long running operations like mounting/encryption/decryption as background services.

DroidFS already runs file encryption and decryption tasks in the background as a foreground service. I don't understand what you ask here.

Holding volumes open in a foreground service has already been proposed here: #250. It would also help implementing #73.

[H-Sorkatti]

Yes. #250 is exactly what I suffer from.

I also see that my wording was inaccurate, indeed I meant keeping a container open as a 'foreground' service with a persistent notification. Not a background service.