xcopy able to decrypt files?

[perseus]

Is there any way to make xcopy decrypt the encrypted files when copying to an external drive?

[patio]

Not that i'm aware of...how were they encrypted in the 1st place ? ?

[Linux711]

xcopy /g

The /g is said to decrypt files. I haven't tried myself though.

That is, of course, only if they were encrypted with windows, not some 3rd party application.

[perseus]

I think that I have tried /g already, but /g only enables xcopy to copy files to a destination which does not support encryption. This is not what I want, the external disk does support encryption and so the encrypted files are copied as encrypted. The problem is that it is a disk used for backup and if the computer crashed I would probably have problems recovering the encrypted files to another computer. Of course I can decrypt the files after copying, which is what I am doing now.

Of course I mean Windows7 transparent encryption.