EFS can't decrypt

From: Mike Wegner (mwegner1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:33:15 -0600

I have a folder that I decrypted about a year ago and suddenly I
can't access any of the files in it. Sure enough I can't decrypt it either.
I never made a recovery key using cypher, however after running efsinfo I
get:

C:\>EFSINFO /R /U /C dir h:\lanosrep
h:\
lanosrep: Encrypted
  Users who can decrypt:
    MY_DOMAIN\stanss [CN="Smith, Stan"]
    Certificate thumbprint: 9CDE D879 78AB B60B 99B9 8B41 FE44 B78B AFBC
6AA0
  Recovery Agents:
    MY_DOMAIN\Administrator [OU=EFS File Encryption Certificate, L=EFS,
CN=Admin
istrator]
    Certificate thumbprint: DE87 6F62 7BAA A9DC D597 FAB9 5D9F 259E E488
FE9A

>From that info I think I should be able to decrypt since I am "Stan Smith"
and I also have tried from the domain admin account . I have logged onto
both the local
machine and the server with both accounts but am not able to decrypt. Any
idea's out there?

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