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Hi, heres the story...
As a user on my local machine, i selected an option in windows for that users files and folders to be secure. I then created another user, and deleted the old one. Now i can't get any of the files that were in the previous users account. It says access denied. Both users are administrators.
I can't even read the files, see the files, or access them in any way, can anyone tell me how i can get the files back somehow ?
 
Thankyou so much, that worked perfectly.
I really appreciate the help mate, and i got a reply within 5 minutes of asking the question, thanks again.
 
foddeR said:
Hi, heres the story...
As a user on my local machine, i selected an option in windows for
that users files and folders to be secure. I then created another
user, and deleted the old one. Now i can't get any of the files that
were in the previous users account. It says access denied. Both users
are administrators. I can't even read the files, see the files, or
access them in any way, can anyone tell me how i can get the files
back somehow ?
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Which option did you use to set the security for the files? Hopefully, you
did not use the encryption option on these files. If you did and then
deleted that users account without first backing up the encryption key,
those files cannot be recovered.

Best practices for the Encrypting File System:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223316

Encrypting File System in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/cryptfs.mspx


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