Encryption Question

From: Stewart Berman (sabmsdn_at_saberman.com)
Date: 09/09/05 

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:11:33 -0400

I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 workstation that I use for email and accounting. I also have a laptop
that I synchronize to the workstation when I travel and then synchronize the workstation to the
laptop when I get back. I would like to encrypt the data on the laptop but not on the workstation.

I use XCopy to copy data between the workstation and the laptop. (Windows networking -- no domain
controller) I use the /G option (Allows the copying of encrypted files to destination that does not
support encryption.) when copying to the workstation from the laptop. This works fine for files.
But if a directory on the laptop are encrypted XCopy fails saying it cannot create the directory.
So I have had to walk the directory tree and unencrypt each directory while not unencrypting the
files under it. While this allows XCopy to copy undated files to the workstation it means I have to
remember to encrypt any new files on the workstation as they don't get the encrypted attribute from
the parent directory.

Is there anyway around this? Anyway I can keep the entire tree encrypted on the laptop and not on
the workstation and still copy updated files to the workstation?

Stu

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