Re: Encrypting a folder and all its contents.

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"Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Frank Martin" <fm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I cannot get any results from the WindowsXP pro help section on how to
encrypt files and folders.

What I want is:

A particular folder that I can encrypt, and this will automatically
encrypt all files put into it. Then to open the folder to read the files
a password would be required.

Please help, Frank


The Windows Encrypting File System makes it extremely easy to encrypt
files and folders. It's a couple of mouse clicks.

It also makes it extremely easy to permanently lose access to those files
and folders.

When you tell Windows that a particular folder should be encrypted, a
too-frequently-neglected option - and this should NOT be optional at all -
is to back up the account credentials or set up a Recovery Agent.

If you do not back those up, and anything happens to the account profile
(including resetting the password from outside the account), you will
never be able to recover the files.

EFS does not permit you to add a separate password to the encrypted
folders. Anyone who enters the account will have clear access to the
files.
...

Making the whole exercise useless if, for instance, you want
to protect a laptop's data against the risk of someone gaining
access to the laptop and then the data (this problem is a common
one for businesses that must allow their employees to
transport laptops with proprietary data on them). If, that is, I
understand this conversation correctly.


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