windows 8 Windows 8: Trouble with EFS

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Sometimes my applications (Adobe reader, Windows Live Mail,...) refuse to open files encrypted with EFS (error messages like "...cannot open...seems to be corrupted..."). I now found out that it helps to perform a simple reboot to regain the required

access. But when I decrypt such a file before, it's no more usable even after a reboot.

Since I've repeatedly encountered this on different machines, I start to think that there may be a bug in EFS which might even lead to data destruction - something that I want to avoid of course. The question for me now is whether I missed something that

I should have taken care of, or if I should stop using EFS completely (guess it's hard to find an alternative that works similarly without needing to preallocate drive space like Truecrypt requires it).

Andreas

 

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