Timeline for How do I open Files that had windows Padlock on a Mac through hard drive?
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 21:27 | comment | added | stackexchanged | How can I have the encryption key when I never encrypted them in the first place ? The padlock happened on its own, I think from transferring from one half of the Hard drive to the other, from C to D and vice versa. But Padlocked files uploaded to let's say google photos, when I still have had ,y pc, could be read in google photos with no issues. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 19:03 | comment | added | lx07 | The padlock on Windows means that they're encrypted with EFS. If this is the case (as they hint in the question) then the OP would need the encryption key they hopefully backed up as well as a Windows VM. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypting_File_System | |
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 17:21 | history | answered | David Anderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |