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Plus I'm sure my company would have issues sending our sensitive data to some random company we have no prior history with. I'm probably going to call today to find out more about their software. This won't help for your current problem, but to prevent this from happening again, you need to implement a recovery agent.

I tried this once before with files from my own system. I purposely encrypted a folder roughly 5. I moved the encrypted folder to a external FAT32 jumpdrive.

This gave me the option to remove the encryption, which I allowed. And I was able to access the files fine. If they have been destroyed it's not possible to save the data unencrypted this way.

I have tried it. I have the user trying to figure out passwords were being used at the time of encryption because after it scans the servers for valid keys it comes back and says none of them will open the files. Thats the best one from what I can tell but its not working.

Looks like the Admin account as recovery agent has expired. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem. Philipp Jason Jason 3, 3 3 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges.

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Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. If Device encryption doesn't appear, it isn't available. You may be able to turn on standard BitLocker encryption instead. Sign in to your Windows device with an administrator account you may have to sign out and back in to switch accounts. In the search box on the taskbar, type Manage BitLocker and then select it from the list of results.

Note: You'll only see this option if BitLocker is available for your device. It isn't available on Windows 10 Home edition. Select Turn on BitLocker and then follow the instructions. If your device requires a recovery key to unlock, see Find your recovery key. Windows 11 Windows 10 More In the meantime, check out what's available for Windows 10 on the Windows 10 tab.

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