EFS corrupts files

[Guest tommazzo]

Hi,

I recently reformatted my computer and installed Windows Vista Business. I

decided to give the encrypting file system a try and selected the Documents

folder and the folder, where Outlook stores the .pst files, to be encrypted.

Then I transferred the data I had backuped to another computer over the

network before the format back to my HD (again over the network), directly

into the encrypted Documents folder.

When I launched Outlook to import my saved e-mails it said that the

Outlook.pst (not the backup, but the file it had created on the first launch

before I had applied the encryption) file was not a valid personal folder

file. So I restarted Windows and tried it again, this time Outlook launched

fine, but it now claimed that my Backup.pst file was invalid. That's where I

am now. I tried opening some other encrypted files and some of them worked,

others were corrupt without any noticeable pattern. If I remove the

encryption the files are still corrupt.

Has anyone experienced this before or, even better, does anyone have a

solution to this problem?

[Guest DL]

If you backup or copy an OL data file whilst OL is open, or anything else,

eg a Desktop search app, is accessing the data file it will corrupt it.

Likewise MS doesnt support the use of a pst over a network.

 

"tommazzo" <tommazzo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:3A76C876-E43F-4F39-9F29-CFFFC105AF72@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

> Hi,

> I recently reformatted my computer and installed Windows Vista Business. I

> decided to give the encrypting file system a try and selected the

> Documents

> folder and the folder, where Outlook stores the .pst files, to be

> encrypted.

> Then I transferred the data I had backuped to another computer over the

> network before the format back to my HD (again over the network), directly

> into the encrypted Documents folder.

> When I launched Outlook to import my saved e-mails it said that the

> Outlook.pst (not the backup, but the file it had created on the first

> launch

> before I had applied the encryption) file was not a valid personal folder

> file. So I restarted Windows and tried it again, this time Outlook

> launched

> fine, but it now claimed that my Backup.pst file was invalid. That's where

> I

> am now. I tried opening some other encrypted files and some of them

> worked,

> others were corrupt without any noticeable pattern. If I remove the

> encryption the files are still corrupt.

> Has anyone experienced this before or, even better, does anyone have a

> solution to this problem? </span>

[Guest tommazzo]

Hi,

Thanks for your response! The .pst file was definitely not in use when I

backed it up, but it also wasn't the only file I couldn't decrypt.

In the meantime I was able to figure out what the problem was: The fact that

I was unable to decrypt some of my encrypted files was because I had Symantec

AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.2 installed (see

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-s...007020810462848). After I uninstalled it, all files decrypted again fine.

[Guest Michael D. Ober]

"tommazzo" <tommazzo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:676FA631-DA0B-4B15-BFD2-CB29BBB55ABC@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

> Hi,

> Thanks for your response! The .pst file was definitely not in use when I

> backed it up, but it also wasn't the only file I couldn't decrypt.

> In the meantime I was able to figure out what the problem was: The fact

> that

> I was unable to decrypt some of my encrypted files was because I had

> Symantec

> AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.2 installed (see

> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-s...007020810462848).

> After I uninstalled it, all files decrypted again fine.

></span>

 

Yet another reason to stay away from Symantec's security products.

[Guest Alan]

On May 12, 3:20 am, tommazzo <tomma...@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> Hi,

> I recently reformatted my computer and installed Windows Vista Business. I

> decided to give the encrypting file system a try and selected the Documents

> folder and the folder, where Outlook stores the .pstfiles, to be encrypted.

> Then I transferred the data I had backuped to another computer over the

> network before the format back to my HD (again over the network), directly

> into the encrypted Documents folder.

> When I launched Outlook to import my saved e-mails it said that the

> Outlook.pst(not the backup, but the file it had created on the first launch

> before I had applied the encryption) file was not a valid personal folder

> file. So I restarted Windows and tried it again, this time Outlook launched

> fine, but it now claimed that my Backup.pstfile was invalid. That's where I

> am now. I tried opening some other encrypted files and some of them worked,

> others werecorruptwithout any noticeable pattern. If I remove the

> encryption the files are stillcorrupt.

> Has anyone experienced this before or, even better, does anyone have a

> solution to this problem?</span>

 

If you need to recover the pst file, you can use Inbox Repair tool

which is used to repair corrupted file of pst. To run Inbox repair

tool fallow the steps:

 

1. Click on start goes to the search then click on files or folders

option.

2. In search box type scanpst.exe.

3. Double click on the scanpst.exe file to open the inbox repair

tool.

4. Then enter the location of Pst file and its name or browse it for

the path.

5. Then start to repair.

 

This way you can repair your pst file. But if your file is badly

damaged you may not able to repair it. At that time you can use some

software. You can try a tool called Advanced Outlook Repair to repair

your PST file. It is a powerful tool to recover messages, folders and

other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook PST files.

It's website is http://www.datanumen.com/aor/

 

Hope this helps.