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| 391758 | 2005-09-28 11:55:00 | I encrypted my important documents, had to re-install Windows, now OpenOffice won't let me open those documents anymore. Tried to un-ecrypt the documents :rolleyes: But that was no success either. Is it now impossible to access my important documents? that would be a disaster :( :horrified Advice appreciated. |
Bazman (6587) | ||
| 391759 | 2005-09-29 00:08:00 | I encrypted my important documents, had to re-install Windows, now OpenOffice won't let me open those documents anymore. Tried to un-ecrypt the documents :rolleyes: But that was no success either. Is it now impossible to access my important documents? that would be a disaster :( :horrified Advice appreciated. Did you use Openoffice to encrypt them in the first place? Did it use a private key or similar? Maybe you need to find that from the backup that you of course took before you reinstalled... :badpc: |
leechfish (8970) | ||
| 391760 | 2005-09-29 00:18:00 | What did you use to encrypt the document? If you used strong encryption like that in Open Office, you will certainly need the key. If you didn't save the key, then you will need several supercomputers or a grid, an advanced degree in mathematics, and maybe a few hundred years to break the encryption. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 391761 | 2005-09-29 00:29:00 | I used EFS to encrypt. I have admin rights, the folder is not encrypted, just the documents. When I look who's got all the rights for the documents, admin is there, but yet I can't open them. I didn't do any back-ups before I re-installed windows :badpc: so i guess i'm pretty much screwed unless I can decrypt those documents. If that's even possible. :help: | Bazman (6587) | ||
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