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Encrypted Files - Find All on the Local Hard Drives

How to Find and See a List of All Encrypted Files on All Local Hard Drives
Published by Brink
05-04-2011
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How to Find and See a List of All Encrypted Files on All Local Hard Drives

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This will show you how to find and see a list of all encrypted files on all NTFS local hard drives and partitions in a Windows computer. The list will include the full path of each encrypted file found.
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Special thanks to Aaron for pointing out this cipher command.




Here's How:
1. Open a command prompt.

2. To Use the cipher /u Command
NOTE: This option is used to find all the encrypted files on the local drives, and will update user's file encryption key or recovery keys to the current ones if they are changed.
A) In the command prompt, copy and paste the command below and press enter.
cipher /u

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3. To Use the cipher /u /n Command
NOTE: This option is used to find all the encrypted files on the local drives, and will not update the encyption keys.
A) In the command prompt, copy and paste the command below and press enter.
cipher /u /n

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4. When finished, close the command prompt.
That's it,
Shawn



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