TSGL: encryption question

[Craig]

Hi Merna,

I had told her to burn the folder to a CD, & told her to stay patient & 
hope that a new plan will turn up. And how right you are! I just found 
this at the MS Help & Support Center:

Files retain their encrypted property until explicitly decrypted or 
moved to a non-NTFS volume. Similarly, renaming an encrypted file does 
not alter its encrypted status.

---Wow. non-NTFS. I'm guessing that somehow the folder properties could 
be accessed to turn off encryption while in Linux? Will have to wait a 
few more weeks until I set that up.

Craig



Eric and Merna Bitter wrote:
> Assuming she needs the space on the external drive, can she save the
> protected ones that she would like to keep in a temporary folder on her hard
> drive or a flash drive or a CD/DVD?  That way she would still have them to
> try unlocking methods on in the future.  If it were something I really
> didn't want to lose, I'd try that.  In fact, I'd probably copy/paste/burn
> them to more than one place in case my trials corrupted them.
>
> There may be a method available now that we simply haven't found.  If not,
> there may be a method available tomorrow or next week or next month.
>
> Merna
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig" <crtrav at charter.net>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:51 AM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: encryption question
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>
> The forums seem to show the same question asked, but no direct answers.
> The kicker for me was the Microsoft site that warns, "NOTE: If you do
> not have access to a Recovery Agent's account with a valid recovery key,
> you cannot recover the data. There is no workaround in EFS." And since
> my niece reformatted her C: drive, that 40 digit key was lost. I'll
> report to her that the data is probably gone forever.
>
> Thank you to all who helped me with this problem. You furnished a lot of
> interesting reading. This List is such a fabulous resource!
>
> Craig
>
>
>
> Craig wrote:
>   
>> I received this email from a family member,
>>
>> I have some protected files (mainly my pictures and home videos) on my
>> external hard drive, then I had to reformat my hard drive but I forgot
>> to unprotect these files on my external.  Now I can't open these files.
>> How can I unprotect them?  I know there has to be a way! it's on a usb,
>> it's a seagate. I just used the regular windows protection. for
>> instance, many of the files are .jpg, so I right click on the file, then
>> properties, then I click attributes: advanced, then encrypt contents to
>> secure data. sometimes I have access to the details button which shows
>> who has access to the file. my old computer name and certificate are
>> listed from before the reformat. now my certificate is a totally
>> different number (I checked). anyway, what can I do? all of emma's
>> beautiful pictures are frozen!
>>
>>
>> Am I right by telling her that they are lost? It's XPSP2
>>
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