need some tech help

[Camel toe joe]

I work as a local admin in my office, I ran into a problem I never had to deal with. Basicly I have a user (xp pro) that encrypted some files with xp's file encryption. Now I was trying to move his data to a new machine and I get access denied even when logged in with the users account. Anyone have a work around? From what I been reading I think the data is lost and to be honest I don't care he shouldn't have encrypted it in the first place or he should have backed up the certs at least.. Would still like help if anyone has an idea

[Chacal]

You' have to decypt the file on his old machine. It's probable the two don't have the same key length.

[Camel toe joe]

Originally posted by Chacal
You' have to decypt the file on his old machine. It's probable the two don't have the same key length.

I tried this on the old machine, I might just give up on this was hoping to find a simple solution