RE: EFS / moving files

From: Matthew Mucker [MSFT] (mattmu_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:05:14 GMT

Don,

Option 2 should work.

Just make sure that when you export the certificate, you select the option
to export the private key.

-Matt
 
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>From: donchanger@yahoo.com (Don)
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>Subject: EFS / moving files
>Date: 10 Jul 2004 09:05:52 -0700
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>I think I blew it but maybe not?
>
>I am on a working vacation with my family, about a 2 hour drive from
>my office. I took with me a disk image (Drive Image) of important
>work. Unfortunately, one of the folders is encrypted using Windows
>EFS and I forgot to decrypt the folder before making the image and it
>refuses to allow me to restore files from that folder.
>
>The options I have thought of are:
>
>1. Drive back to my office, decrypt, and re-image (or just archive
>the drive by copying straight to DVD);
>
>2. Drive back to my office and export the certificate (or just pick
>up the floppy-archive version of the certificate that is safe and
>sound - in my office!) and then see if I can import it onto my laptop
>and then access the folder (however, Drive Image "mounts" the image as
>a drive and what little I have read about importing certificates often
>says that it won't work with "dynamic" drives so is a "mounted" drive
>the same as a "dynamic" drive?);
>or
>
>3. See whether someone not nearly as dumb as me has a better idea. I
>have available to me a laptop with NTFS and XP Pro, and I do of course
>know the username and password of the account under which the files
>were encrypted. I presume that just creating an account of the same
>name and using the same password on another machine will not gain me
>access - right?
>
>I might consider paying for a utility that I could download that would
>save me a good chunk of a day on the road. Sheesh - I should have
>known better.
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts? I would be most grateful.
>
>Thanks, Don Changer
>

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