Re: Unable to acces enrypted files

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From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:34:03 -0700

No, that world defeat the whole purpose. You do have the option of trying
file recovery applications which you might find doing a search of Google.
These are usually for situations other than encryption however. There are
also file recovery services, you can find them in the back pages of most PC
magazines. I would think they would be able to handle this type of
situation. 

-- 
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
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"Danny" <danny669@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1ad2c01c44f0c$6ee6d540$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Danny wrote:
>>> I had forgotten the password for my account, so i used
>>> another account to change the password. Doing this lost
>>> my certificate or whatever it is that lets me acces
> those
>>> files, i had not backed up this and i have no data
>>> recovery agents so i cannot access these files and i
> have
>>> no back-ups of these files so i cannot replace them, i
>>> tried using the cipher command as well and it said it
> was
>>> denied access to the files. Is there anyway to bypass
> the
>>> encryption or force a decryption?
>>
>>Unfortunately, if you did not back-up the encryption key
> or the recovery
>>agent and are not on a domain, the files are as good as
> gone. This must be
>>accomplished while you have access to the files. If you
> have not already
>>done so, it is now too late. EFS is very good at what it
> does and there is
>>no back door.
>>
>>The only other possibility, and I'm not positive about
> this, would be if you
>>could remember the original password for that account.
>>
>>-- 
>>Ronnie Vernon
>>Microsoft MVP
>>Windows Shell/User
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>
> Is there no way to make another certificate with the same
> key?

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