Jun 7, 2009 0
Horrific week. NTFS Encryption (EFS) is the worst nightmare.
EFS or NTFS encryption can turn out to be your life’s worst nightmare in case you don’t fully read about it. I advice everyone not to use it unless you really know what you are doing and backup your certificates.
I, myself had this nightmare and it was not as bad as other people have it. I had many folders of mine encrypted and I forgot about them completely as encryption is transparent to user who encrypted the file. It was a usual day. I was working on my computer when I wanted to access some files from ‘My Documents’ (yes, I encrypted whole My Documents folder. Idiot me.) and was denied access. I thought it might be with just that file. I tried accessing other files, other folders but it gave same error. It dawned upon me. In an instant, I knew what was going on. I was shocked and confused at the same time. I didn’t know what was happening.
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