[MEL]

I am unable to open several files that I encrypted by going to Properties,
Advanced Attributes, Encrypt file to secure data. I am using Office 2003.

I moved the files from my C drive to an external NTFS formatted drive. Then
the original computer "died". Now I have my new computer (still running
Office 2003) connected to the same external drive. When I open Word and go
to the external drive location to retrieve the encrypted files, I get a
message stating "Word cannot open the document: _document name appears here_
user does not have access privileges."

Are my files lost for good?

[Poprivet]

Mel wrote:
I am unable to open several files that I encrypted by going to
Properties, Advanced Attributes, Encrypt file to secure data. I am
using Office 2003.

I moved the files from my C drive to an external NTFS formatted
drive. Then the original computer "died". Now I have my new
computer (still running Office 2003) connected to the same external
drive. When I open Word and go to the external drive location to
retrieve the encrypted files, I get a message stating "Word cannot
open the document: _document name appears here_ user does not have
access privileges."

Are my files lost for good?

Yes. BTDT.

[Graham Mayor]

File permissions are more a question for the Windows forum than Word. You
may have more success there.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Mel wrote:
I am unable to open several files that I encrypted by going to
Properties, Advanced Attributes, Encrypt file to secure data. I am
using Office 2003.

I moved the files from my C drive to an external NTFS formatted
drive. Then the original computer "died". Now I have my new
computer (still running Office 2003) connected to the same external
drive. When I open Word and go to the external drive location to
retrieve the encrypted files, I get a message stating "Word cannot
open the document: _document name appears here_ user does not have
access privileges."

Are my files lost for good?