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decrypting encrypted files
Name: copetiger00 Date: September 20, 2007 at 09:55:18 Pacific OS: win2000 CPU/Ram: 1.33G AMD Athlon
Comment:
new problem.
I had 2 user accts (say A and B) on my computer. While logged into B, I encrypted some files many months ago. Recently, I deleted user acct B.
to my horror, i found that i cannot open the files again. the error msg is "c:\xxx.doc:can't read file header! unknown file format or file not found!"
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: September 20, 2007 at 13:46:28 Pacific
Reply:
The encryption is connected/attached to the Account SID. Unless you designated your other account as a Recovery Agent, then you're out of luck unless you can move/copy the files to a non-ntfs drive/partition. Might be a good idea to read up on EFS before encrypting anymore files.
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Response Number 2
Name: copetiger00 Date: September 21, 2007 at 09:04:50 Pacific
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i cannot move/copy the files to a non-ntfs system. i think it is due to the encryption/access rights issue. thanks anyway.
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