{"id":13467,"date":"2018-12-12T07:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T07:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=13467"},"modified":"2018-12-12T07:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T07:08:37","slug":"find-all-efs-encrypted-files-on-your-windows-10-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/find-all-efs-encrypted-files-on-your-windows-10-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find All EFS Encrypted Files on your Windows 10 PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a way to keep track of all encrypted files in Windows 10? When you forgot where you put your EFS encrypted files on your hard drive, here is a quick way to find them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Find All EFS Encrypted Files on your Windows 10 PC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-elevated-command-prompt-from-standard-user-in-windows\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elevated Command Prompt<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/5-ways-to-run-powershell-as-administrator-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PowerShell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/run-cmd-as-administrator-from-search.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"463\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Run the following command. It will search all your local hard drives and list any EFS encrypted files it finds.<br \/>\n<code>cipher \/u \/n \/h<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/find-efs-encrypted-files.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13469\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a number of EFS encrypted folders\/files on the hard disk, you can save the list as a text file by running this command:<br \/>\n<code>cipher \/u \/n \/h > %UserProfile%\\Desktop\\MyEncryptedFiles.txt<\/code><\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s done, you can open the <em>MyEncryptedFiles.txt<\/em> file created on your desktop, which contains all your encrypted files with the location.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a way to keep track of all encrypted files in Windows 10? When you forgot where you put your EFS encrypted files on your hard drive, here is a quick way to find them. How to Find All EFS Encrypted Files on your Windows 10 PC Open an elevated Command Prompt or PowerShell. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4079,4078],"class_list":["post-13467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-find-efs-encrypted-files","tag-find-encrypted-files-on-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13471,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions\/13471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}