EFS not decrypting file (access is not issue)

A few months back I encrypted a text file. I tested it then, no problems. Now when I attempt to decrypt the file nothing seems to happen. I can encrypt/decrypt all I want, no trouble there. However, when ever I open it the file remains hashed. I can open it 'encrypted' and the hash is the same as when it's 'decrypted'(or at least windows tells me it decrypted it). Certificate is fine, the user account is correct (and obviously working since I can still technically access the file, just not what was written in it), and as far as I can tell everything lines up.

Any ideas?

June 24th, 2013 10:15pm

Hi,

From the description, as you said the files is not decrypted correctly.

Whether it is the same account you encrypted the file and trying to access the file? Please go to Properties of the file, click Advanced button in General tab, go to Details and see which account has permission to access the file when the file is encrypted.

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June 26th, 2013 12:16pm

Thanks for the reply, there's only the administrator account on there so different accounts isn't an issue. I did try logging on/off a few times to no effect.

Any other ideas?

July 2nd, 2013 4:14pm

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