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Old August 28th 19, 03:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
M. L.
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Default Files Keep Saving as Encrypted

Windows 10 Pro x64 v1903

For some reason, new files are automatically being saved as encrypted
(with gold lock icon in the upper-right corner).

- If I remove the encryption per file or globally, I can no longer save
the file to my desktop.
- I used a reg file to "Take Ownership" of the file and the Desktop
folder, but that didn't help.
- If I remove the file's encryption and delete the file, restoring it
from the Recycle Bin re-encrypts it.
- If I restore the file's encryption, I can save it to my desktop.

Is there a way to remove the automatic encryption without being
prevented from saving files to the desktop? Any troubleshooting ideas
will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Old August 28th 19, 03:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_6_]
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Default Files Keep Saving as Encrypted

M. L. wrote:

For some reason, new files are automatically being saved as encrypted
(with gold lock icon in the upper-right corner).

- If I remove the encryption per file or globally, I can no longer save
the file to my desktop.
- I used a reg file to "Take Ownership" of the file and the Desktop
folder, but that didn't help.
- If I remove the file's encryption and delete the file, restoring it
from the Recycle Bin re-encrypts it.
- If I restore the file's encryption, I can save it to my desktop.

Is there a way to remove the automatic encryption without being
prevented from saving files to the desktop? Any troubleshooting ideas
will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


presumably this is not bitlocker, as that applies to an entire drive and
you talk about removing it per folder, so it sounds like EFS

if you right click, then look at properties and advanced for e.g.
c:\users\yourname\desktop

do you see "encrypt contents to secure data" ticked?
if you go up a level do you see the same, up again?

untick it to remove it at the folder level.
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Old August 28th 19, 07:56 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
M. L.
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Default Files Keep Saving as Encrypted

On 8/28/2019 9:46 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
M. L. wrote:

For some reason, new files are automatically being saved as encrypted
(with gold lock icon in the upper-right corner).

- If I remove the encryption per file or globally, I can no longer
save the file to my desktop.
- I used a reg file to "Take Ownership" of the file and the Desktop
folder, but that didn't help.
- If I remove the file's encryption and delete the file, restoring it
from the Recycle Bin re-encrypts it.
- If I restore the file's encryption, I can save it to my desktop.

Is there a way to remove the automatic encryption without being
prevented from saving files to the desktop? Any troubleshooting ideas
will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


presumably this is not bitlocker, as that applies to an entire drive and
you talk about removing it per folder, so it sounds like EFS

if you right click, then look at properties and advanced for e.g.
c:\users\yourname\desktop

do you see "encrypt contents to secure data" ticked?
if you go up a level do you see the same, up again?

untick it to remove it at the folder level.


Yes, that's the way I disabled encryption per file or folder. I used
secpol.msc to disable the laptop's encryption. Either way, after
disabling encryption I couldn't copy/move stuff to my desktop.
 




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