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In I started getting a weird message "Encrypting file system - Back up your file encryption key" a user experiences a prompt that I also experienced yesterday for the first time.
Now the question: what causes the prompt if cipher /u /n
(as admin) doesn't find any encrypted files? I.e. what caused a key to be generated in the first place? Is there a way to track that down? (also see EFS - Find out what's encrypted)
NB: I am not interested in why I get the EFS prompt, but rather what causes the key to be generated, if no encrypted files seem to exist on the system and I haven't used EFS consciously myself.