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  1. Jul 7th, 2004, 08:01 PM #1
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    Ugh. DAMN NT Encryption...(solved,butNotReal)

    Hello,
    I reformatted, and my data was encrypted, oh boy, and I can't unencrypt it or read it, because its encrypted under a different user(reformatted) and for some reason (what a great idea) I changed my user name...How can I unencrypt it... like not the hard way, bypassing windows and faking im a user or something....

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    I don't have a clue what you mean but how about creating a second user on your PC with the old name and decrypt it then? Surely that can't work?
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  3. Jul 7th, 2004, 08:26 PM #3
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    Forget that part then, but how would I access/unencrypt the file... Surely someone has encountered this..
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  4. Jul 7th, 2004, 09:12 PM #4
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  6. Jul 7th, 2004, 09:50 PM #5
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    Umm,
    when you encrypt a file, you end up with the first, unencrypted file, and the second, encrypted one.

    Shirley if you did this, then why can't you open the original???


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  7. Jul 7th, 2004, 10:00 PM #6
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    You've never done/heard about the windows encryption on NT(XP)? There is a NTFS(i think) file system that allows you to encrypt files... It encrypts the file, whenever you open it, it decrypts it... And, I think its saying access is denied because I am not on the user that encrypted it... I can't go back on that user because i reformatted...

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  8. Jul 7th, 2004, 10:09 PM #7
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    Well,
    Why 'dja do that?
    Especially if you were going to need that file later on???


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    Hmm... wait...
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  12. Jul 7th, 2004, 10:13 PM #10
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    I got it to work.. not the file, but my files that I saved to my external hard drive...

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  13. Jul 7th, 2004, 10:18 PM #11
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