Re: EFS and file update attributes

Though this suggestion is not EFS specific while in Explorer try selecting
view - choose details and make sure that creation date is selected as part
of the view for when details is selected as the folder view.

Also be extremely careful when using EFS in that you are backing up your EFS
private encryption keys to password protected .pfx files and ideally also
having clear text backups of your data so a situation does not arrive where
you can not access your encrypted files.

Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316 --- EFS best practices

Why you must back up your certificates
Because there is no way to recover data that has been encrypted with a
corrupted or missing certificate, it is critical that you back up the
certificates and store them in a secure location. You can also specify a
recovery agent. This agent can restore the data. The recovery agent's
certificate serves a different purpose than the user's certificate.

"Sam Docker" <unclesam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5oj5oiFn4k1sU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have pretty much filled disks where I wanted to apply EFS. When I do
so, each file gets the date of EFS application as the latest change
date. That's a real mess, since I really wanted to keep the original
dates e.g. of letters and other documents.

Is there a way to achieve that ?

I have one workaround which is to generate an EFSsed temp dir and move
my files there. Than move them back.

Funny enough when shifting them from temp up, they keep their encryption.

Strange enough sometimes the files keep their original dates when
wandering into temp, sometimes they don't.

Puzzled. Sam.


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