TSGL: encryption question

[H Davis]

How about a FAT formatted (USB maybe) drive?

H Davis

Craig wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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