EFS error msg copying a file locally

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Jeff M.

I am trying to back up encrypted files on my XP Pro
laptop to another location in unencrypted format, for
backup every night. It's going to a server that doesn't
support EFS. I want XP to decrypt on the fly.

I decrypts on the fly if I drag & drop to the new
location - if I respond "ignore all" at the prompt.

Problem is, Xcopy and Robocopy generate error messages
("can't copy/move without losing its encryption").

There is a registry hack (that I have lost) that turns
off the warning for all of these scenarios and just
unencrypts the files by default.

Without this hack, I can't run my backup script. The
size of the file set is too big to drag & drop every day.

Does anyone have this registry setting? I can't find it
on kbase anymore... it was definitely there because I
used it before in the same circumstance. My HD crashed
and I can't find the hack.

(This is a client-side setting, not the server-side one
that turns off EFS for the server.)

Thanks for your help!

Jeff M.
 
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