Oct 17 2019 11:01 AM
Oct 20 2019 08:43 PM
@Justn can you do a system restore to go back to a point in time before you removed the profile to access and decrypt the files?
Oct 21 2019 01:47 AM
@JustnYou don't have many options here:
If you have neither of those options, you have no way of getting the files again. You either need to restore the old profile, which contains the private key needed to decrypt the files, or you needed to implement recovery options BEFORE your incident (EFS-Recovery Agent, Private-Key-Archiving, EFS-Certificate export and backup).
If you didn't implement any EFS-Recovery options and can't access the original profile with the original user account in it's original state (a password reset on the user-account would block you from accessing the private key even in the original user profile), you are out of luck. Implement one or more of those features as soon as possible to prevent future disasters, or at least, disable EFS for end-users.