Im looking to enable bitlocker on my laptop. I Use my laptop for work and I have it connected to a company shared dropbox folder. As there is sensitive data in this dropbox older, Id like to enable bitlocker to secure my local copies of these files.

My question here is, will this encrypt the cloud stored copies of the files? Im concerned about accidentally locking everyone else out of the files in the cloud stored dropbox if I use bitlocker to encrypt the local copies as dropbox syncs everything.

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@ge0rdi's comment is correct -- the files are decrypted before Dropbox sees them, so Dropbox uploads only the decrypted files and no one else sharing the files will be affected.

Here's another reference on Microsoft's website:

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