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The Encrypted File System does not encrypt and generates an "access is denied" error message

Article ID: 288261

Article Last Modified on 3/2/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

This article was previously published under Q288261

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to encrypt a file using the Encrypted File System (EFS), the encryption may not work, and you may receive the following error messages:

Error message 1

Access is denied.

Error message 2

Event ID: 6019
Event Type: Error
Event Source: EFS
Event Category: None
Date: 08/14/2000
Time: 05:13:00 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PUSH
Description:
The file file name being encrypted is a special reparse file, which is not supported by this version of EFS.
Data:
0000: 04 00 00 c0 ...

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if the target file is stored on a partition on which either the hierarchical storage management method or the Single Instance Store feature has been used.

MORE INFORMATION

Any files that have been stored by means of the hierarchical storage management method or by using the Single Instance Store feature cannot be encrypted.

For more information about the hierarchical storage management method or the Single Instance Store feature, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

240856 Removable Storage Manager terms and definitions

226545 How Single Instance Storage identifies which volumes to manage

Additional query words: hsm sis

Keywords: kbenv kberrmsg kbprb KB288261

Microsoft KB Archive/288261

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