How to decrypt files without the EFS Certificate

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Springna

Hello,

I accidently delete the EFS certificate in "Personal"
certificate for one of my encrypted folder. I did not
export the certificate before and did not delegate a
recovery agent. Right now I could not open the files
within it because I do not have permissions. How stupid i
am...

Is there any way to solve this serious problem?

Thanks!
 
Springna said:
Hello,

I accidently delete the EFS certificate in "Personal"
certificate for one of my encrypted folder. I did not
export the certificate before and did not delegate a
recovery agent. Right now I could not open the files
within it because I do not have permissions. How stupid i
am...

Is there any way to solve this serious problem?
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Hi

Unless you have a backup of your user profile folder before you
deleted the EFS certificate, your files are gone.
 
Opps.. I did not have.
BTW, if I have, where would the certificate be within the
user profile folder?

Thanks again!
 
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