When I upgraded to Vista, I saved all my documents. Unfortunately, I had one of my folders encrypted, and when I put it back in Vista, I cannot open the files in this folder. I get the message that "the document name or path is not valid". It suggests checking my security settings or using File Open to access the files. Neither worked. The files are all Microsoft Word documents or Excel spread sheets. I use Microsoft Office 2000. The files were encrypted using Windows encryption. I can decrypt them but still not access them. Any suggestions?
I don't know what key you are referring to. When I encrypted, I right clicked on the folder, selected properties, selected advanced, checked the encryption box, and clicked OK. I was not prompted for anything else.
To pcgeek11: This falls under the category of live and learn. Fortunately, I dug through some stuff and found a CD that I had copied the files to. It was dated, but I was able to recover most of the files. I think I will just do without encryption from now on.
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Posted February 9th, 2007 12:00