A couple years ago I locked away some important images/documents. I used this solution to hiding/locking them.
I made a text file and input the following text, and then renamed the file to "locker.bat" so that I could hide and unhide the folder by entering my password via the bat file.
cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Private
if EXIST "HTG Locker" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Private "HTG Locker"
attrib +h +s "HTG Locker"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== PASSWORD_GOES_HERE goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "HTG Locker"
ren "HTG Locker" Private
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Private
echo Private created successfully
goto End
:End
Everything was fine until my PC started to cark it, and I've since backed everything up and built a new PC. However, now when I open the folder, all of the files are still there, It's taking up the same amount of space, but all of the images and files have a lock on it (as seen in the files attached.)
Is there any way at all of accessing these again? I assume this is an issue with encryption and permissions. I no longer have the old PC, but I just thought because it was a backup, that my new account would be able to access it too.
I've tried setting permissions and copying the files out of the folder onto another computer but it says i do not have permissions. I have tried sharing them but it will not allow me to do it.
Any help would be much appreciated! Have been dealing with this for a long time now.
EDIT: All "Authenticated Users", "SYSTEM", "Administrators", and "Users" have full control. Also, when trying to take ownership of a specific file that is locked, it says that the file could not be decrypted.