Re: EFS error msg copying a file locally

From: Drew Cooper [MSFT] (dcoop_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/18/03 

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:45:35 -0700

"xcopy /g" or "copy /d" will do it.

Or the reg value:
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\CopyFileAllowDecryptedRemote
Destination = (REG_DWORD) 1

I'm not sure which KB article it was in, but it is documented here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/CryptFS.asp 

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Drew Cooper [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Jeff M." <jmacmichREMOVE@THISmbna.com> wrote in message
news:00f001c393ff$16345da0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am trying to back up encrypted files on my XP Pro
> laptop to another location in unencrypted format, for
> backup every night.  It's going to a server that doesn't
> support EFS.  I want XP to decrypt on the fly.
>
> I decrypts on the fly if I drag & drop to the new
> location - if I respond "ignore all" at the prompt.
>
> Problem is, Xcopy and Robocopy generate error messages
> ("can't copy/move without losing its encryption").
>
> There is a registry hack (that I have lost) that turns
> off the warning for all of these scenarios and just
> unencrypts the files by default.
>
> Without this hack, I can't run my backup script.  The
> size of the file set is too big to drag & drop every day.
>
> Does anyone have this registry setting?  I can't find it
> on kbase anymore... it was definitely there because I
> used it before in the same circumstance.  My HD crashed
> and I can't find the hack.
>
> (This is a client-side setting, not the server-side one
> that turns off EFS for the server.)
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Jeff M.

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