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Access denied

by dhruv001 Sep 2, 2007 6:07PM PDT

Recently, after i modified my administrator pwd (windows XP prof. / S.pack2/ thinkpad), i am unable to open files, with a 'access denied' error. This affects only a few files , not all.

It appears that those files which throw the 'access denied' error message do not have the "summary tab", which appears to be because these files are encrypted.

In short, those files that have the 'encrypt contents to secure data' box checked (in the attrib section) are now unaccessible.

I am now fairly certain that the problem is related to encryption. Is the encryption key built off the administrator password ?

Any ideas on how to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Dhruv
P.S I did search this forum(and others), but unable to locate a solution to resolve this.

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That's EFS. Prior discussions about.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 2, 2007 10:04PM PDT

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=250354&messageID=2502263#2502263
and
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7589_102-0.html?forumID=62&threadID=99336&messageID=1139921#1139921

Hope you backed up that all important certificate.

Bob

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Solved

by dhruv001 Sep 3, 2007 2:37AM PDT

Bob,
Thanks for your help..The links you provided did help..

I reverted back to my old (administrator) pwd, and now i no longer face the issue..

I will be backing up my certs as well as disabling EFS in my TP, before i change my login pwd..

Thank you

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