Re: Help! Files Unreadable
- From: George <George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:17:18 -0800
Hi,
thanks for your reply. I think I have had it, because I do not have any more
the original encrypted files but the files after they have been decrypted. I
restored them from backup file (.bak) (where they where encrypted) and then I
decrypted all the folders/subfolders. Then because I did not get an error
during decryption, I deleted the backup file (.bak).
I now use XP pro SP1 but they seem corrupted. As I said I do not get an
error opening them but their content is random. I am wondering what I could
have done in the old system. I mean the EFS could not be stronger than the
one I am using now because I have SP1. -- Life is horrible in a developing
world ?*#!!--
Can I also say something. I have the old mashine somewhere abroad. If I take
the files in their present condition (ie decrypted) is there any chance I
would be able to read them?
I am including some lines of the corrupted files in case they give some ideas.
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"garfield-n-odie" wrote:
> See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329741/ "Encrypting File
> System (EFS) files appear corrupted when you open them". When
> you reinstalled Windows XP, did you reinstall Service Pack 1 for
> Windows XP too?
>
> George wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Maybe someone knows how to deal with this problem? I had several
> > documents created about a year ago. Now after reinstalling XP I can not read
> > the
> > documents, they contain funny characters. When I try to open one of them
> > with Word it tries to install a converter but after installing it is still
> > the same.
> >
> > When I open the document with word I get a message "An input converter
> > has to be installed". I accept and after it is installed there is a
> > dialogue window with title "File Conversion" "select the encoding that
> > makes your document readable". It has thre selection boxes on top
> > "windows default" "MSDOS" "other encoding" which next to it has a
> > scrolable list of encoding eg Arabic, Greek, Wester European etc. I
> > have almost all of them but none worked.
> >
> > When I convert the document with that windows default selections ie
> > "windows default", the document is imported but unreadable. Its 250
> > pages although the original should be about 1-5 pages.
> > When I select part of the text on the task pane (stiles and formating)
> > I see the font, it is shown as Plain Text.
> >
> > I also saved some web pages as .mht, which again could not be read in the same
> > way with IE.
> > The only international font I used before was Greek which I still have
> > it and can read Greek.
> > I have installed many Greek fonts but did not work.
> >
> >
> > One other thing is that I had these documents encrypted. But now I can
> > open them using the certificates I have kept. Would the problem be related
> > with this?
> > Now I can open the documents. Usually when a file is still ecrypted some
> > gets an error, open access
> > denied. I do not get this error, so its seems it is decrypted correctly.
> >
> > Is it a problem with Word or ecryption?
> >
> > I appreciate your help as its quite important loss.
> >
> > George
>
>
.
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