Re: Folder is not accessible


"psychodrew" <psychodrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My Dell died over the weekend, so I bought a new Toshiba. Before I threw
my
old laptop off the cliff, I pulled out the hard drive. When I hooked it
up
to my new computer, I could not access the files that I saved on my
desktop
on the administrator account. I thought I could just go back and change
the
settings so that the files were open to the public, but when I tried
changing
the boot order so my laptop would boot up with the USB hard drive, it
didn't
work.

If your folders/files were encrypted, your new computer's accounts will not
be able to decrypt them on the new computer without having a backup of your
encryption certificate/private key or a recovery agent. Since the local
Administrator account is the default recovery agent, if your system is down
and you did not take steps to create a remote recovery agent, you will not
be able to recover the files/folders if encryption is your problem.

-Pete


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