I have a flash drive and on this flash drive I have a folder. In Windows explorer, I right clicked on the folder and went to properties. I then clicked the advanced button and there is a check box there that says "Encrypt Contents to Secure data". I clicked this box and hit OK. Windows then encrypted the folder for me. I can open the files in that folder just fine on my machine, but not on any other machine.
My question is, I have another computer that I would like to open these files on. What do I need to do to allow this computer access to this folder? I'm thinking I need to some how export a key but I'm not sure which key to export or how to do this. Any help would be appreciated.
Best Answer
You need to backup your file encryption key and restore it on another computer.
Due to the way the system works, you may have to restore it to a user that has exactly the same log-in and password. If this is inconvenient, you have to use other means of encryption.