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Trying to download Ethereum Wallet 0.5.2 mist off github and I after downloading I click through folders and get the following message:

Confirm Encyption Loss

This occurs when I attempt to extract the compressed folders. I have read that this may be due to the originator compressing folders on a mac and extractor is using a PC but I really have no idea and I assume encryption is of paramount importance.

Can someone please let me know what is occurring and how I can go about resolving this issue and safely update to homestead and keep my crypto secure?

Thanks in advance!

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I did some research and all the information I can find is due to a bug in how Windows handles zip files created on a Mac as well. The initial files most likely had their NTFS encryption set which throws this error when you attempt to unzip it.

I also found this answer about the same issue:

Encrypted files might need to be decrypted before the files can be copied or moved to volumes that are not EFS-capable. For any file operation in My Computer, if the destination volume is not capable of re-encrypting the file, you will receive the error message notifying encryption losing.

As a work around, you can use copy and xcopy command-line parameters to enable copying of encrypted files to non-EFS capable volumes.

Copy encrypted files to non-EFS capable volumes by using the copy command: copy /d

Copy encrypted files to non-EFS capable volumes by using the xcopy command: xcopy /g

It does seem like, besides the annoying prompt, there is no real issue or problem ignoring the prompt and continuing on.

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  • Thank you very much for your efforts, tayvano! If it were you, would you just unzip it unencrypted or would you follow the command line protocol?
    – GitKilbert
    Commented Mar 31, 2016 at 20:33
  • I would unzip it and continue on. The program itself has no reason to be encrypted. If something goes wrong and the program fails to launch or something, I might try the Command line way.
    – tayvano
    Commented Apr 1, 2016 at 0:10

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