Windows 10: Windows Encryption/Security PROBLEM!!!

Long story short, I was trying to figure out a way to encrypt the contents of a folder with a password. Yesterday, I clicked the "Encrypt contents to secure data" under Advanced Attributes in the files properties of my folder, and ever since it has locked me out of my own folder.

I want to remove the encryption key now because I can no longer edit anything inside the folder, which is not what I wanted in the first place.

I have the encryption key that it generated sitting on my desktop.. and every time I install it, it says it has "imported successfully". However, when I try to go and remove the encryption by unchecking the box, I get the following error:

"An error occurred applying attributes to the file... the specific file could not be decrypted"

I don't understand why this is so intricate. Could someone please detail me a step-by-step fix?! thank you ... *Mad

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E51 WLAN Setup Issues

Hi,

to remove security and encryption problems from equation, try without any security and encryption in the AP. Connect to AP with wizard. Does it work?

 

Cannot decrypt folder but files and sub-folders contained do decrypt

Hi Paola,

Thank you for your interest in this problem.

• Which encryption software did you use to encrypt the files?
  
  All of the encryption done was using EFS in Windows 10 Pro.
  
• How did you encrypt the files?
  
  The files were encrypted by selecting a folder in File Explorer then right clicking to choose Properties, pressing the Advanced button to the Advanced Attributes screen then checking the box: "Encrypt contents to secure data." Then pressing “OK”
  back to Properties, “OK” again to the Confirm Attribute Changes, select "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files," and OK once more. The encryption then proceeds and all subfolders and files are encrypted. The files were then decrypted by much
  the same process but rather unselecting the "Encrypt contents to secure data" box. This decrypted all the contained files, but the folder and all subfolders remained encrypted. After this the contained files could not again be encrypted by encrypting the
  folder because the "Encrypt contents to secure data" box for the folder was already checked.
  
• How are you able to verify that the files inside the encrypted folders were already decrypted?
  
  By selecting a file and again choosing Properties / Advanced to observe whether the box: "Encrypt contents to secure data" was or was not checked.
  

 

Bump, this is very irritating. It seems as though I do not have access to this folder anymore (even though I have ownership of it as well as the encryption key)

 

Thanks for the help guys, appreciate it

 

I would try bleepingcomputer.com -- they might have the answer. Just politely mention you're consecutively double-posting because tenforums at that time had no answer for you. And, I do not know the answer either, sorry *Sad