Re: Setting up an external hard drive - partioning and sharing issues
- From: "Enquiring Mind" <Enquiring.Mind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:02:07 +0100
Twayne,
Thanks for the warning. I have finally got round to backing up my private
encryption key, but I had to search for instructions about how to do it on
the Internet, so bad are the Windows help files in this regard.
On close analysis it seems to me that the NTFS encryption facility is
somewhat flawed, because of the problems it throws up when backing up files.
Simple password protection of files and folders seems to me to be a more
flexible approach, because the password is computer-independent. An even
better approach would be if applications like MS office programs allowed the
user to set up file encryption as a document property, and did the
encryption/decryption whenever a file is saved or opened. Then files could
be backed up and copied without any concern for whether or not the file is
encrypted - this aspect only comes into play when someone tries to read the
file.
Regards,
EM
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