Cannot Decrypt Files

From: CJ (CJ_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/20/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:53:01 -0800

My tech group and I are rebuilding one of our site's servers. We've run into
a bit of a snag, though, in backing up user folders and information in that
some files and folders have been encrypted and will not copy to a remote
location. We are in the server as the domain admin which is a designated
data recovery agent, necessary to decrypt EFS files and folders. We ran
cipher with the following:

cipher /d /s:d:\ /a

And still we were unable to decrypt the files. Each time, it ran for every
file and folder on the system, but when it came to the encrypted files, we
received the error "Access is denied."

We are banging our heads against a wall this evening... we did NOT expect
this situation. Any help would be appreciated. TIA!

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