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Posted by davodavo on September 13, 2007, 10:22 am
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"Lucvdv" wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > How can I get Windows Desktop Search to index my encrypted folders?
> >
> > Right now, WDS doesn't return any results from my encrypted files. The files
> > are encrypted using Windows XP's EFS.
>
> The indexer is a service and runs under the local system account, which
> means that it can't unencrypt those files. It doesn't have the key.
>
> That's the point of using encryption. Indexing them would mean that parts
> of those files end up in the (unencrypted) index, which would mean a
> security risk.
>
>
> There may be a workaround, if you don't mind a little less security. I
> haven't tried if it works, but if the service is running under your user
> account instead of local system, it should be able to index those files.
>
> The account that the service runs under can be changed through the services
> control panel.
> You can specify only one account, so there's still the limitation that it
> can only get to encrypted files belonging to one user account.
>
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