Friday 5 January 2018

Ubuntu 16.04 - how to read external USB/Sata hard drive that has old encrypted Home folder

Ubuntu 16.04 - how to read external USB/Sata hard drive that has old encrypted Home folder

Terminal commands

To avoid permissions error:

umount /run/user/1000/gvfs

Then:

sudo ecryptfs-recover-private 

Then follow the prompts - see screen-shot below...






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