Vista folder encryption attribute - to stop transferring

[sunorain]

On my PC's HDD I have some files encrypted by Vista. Used "folder encryption"
that is in one of folder properties selected "Encrypt data..."

Folder is shown in green in explorer respectively.

In the beginning, when I copied any files from this folder to another
location (e.g. USB HDD) files became automatically decrypted, i.e. I could
read those files from USB HDD on any other PC.

But now something changed. Though I did not make any changes to security or
file system settings, files copied from encrypted folder to USB HDD stay
encrypted. That is - I can read them only on PC where I copied them to USB
HDD. On other PCs where I connect USB HDD files are not accessible.

How can I change it back? I need files copied from encrypted folder to USB
HDD to decrypt automatically, because it's backup procedure and I need them
accessible on any other PC. How can I stop encryption attribute to be copied
together with file?

[Anteaus]

Probably you've reformatted the HD from FAT32 to NTFS.

Be careful with encryption, it's a dangerous tool, particularly if you don't
understand all of its implications. Only yesterday there was a guy in the XP
group who'd lost his full backup (and hence all of his data) because he
didn't appreciate that copies of encrypted files in the backup would also be
encrypted, and couldn't be decrypted on another computer. It's an easy
mistake to make as the documentation isn't entirely clear on these points
anyway.