The reference to "becoming decrypted if copied..." means that you have
access to the encrypted file but copy it to a volume that does not support
encryption. You still need the encryption certificate to copy the file.
Otherwise, you are back to no access. I experimented with such encryption
and lost a certificate and could not gain access to the encrypted files.
Fortunately, they were only for test purposes and I lost no information.
That helped convince me to go with TrueCrypt instead!

In this case, the best would be to find the encryption certificate - one
should have been saved when the encryption was first done. If not, then you
need to boot that drive with its OS to get the certificate. The only other
option is to break the password using one of the tools for such purposes.

Peter Shkabara

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ekkerman [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: File Permissions issues

Hi Ian,

Here's an overview of EFS
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-
us/encrypt_overview.mspx?mfr=true

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