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• Thanks for the insight.

  in Backup Restore Issues - "File is not a Database" Comment by MJLocher August 20, 2024
• Update: yes, it seems the other files (PDFs, etc) in the backup are similarly inaccessible. I'm not a security guy; this is above my paygrade. Next steps? I assume the IT department at her university might have insights re: what encryption processe…

  in Backup Restore Issues - "File is not a Database" Comment by MJLocher August 20, 2024
• Thanks, BTW.

  in Backup Restore Issues - "File is not a Database" Comment by MJLocher August 20, 2024
• I'll investigate more tomorrow. I'm not an expert in these areas, but I will say my wife works in public health for a university with fairly strict HIPAA and security policies. The retired machine had a pretty extensive suite of protections.

  in Backup Restore Issues - "File is not a Database" Comment by MJLocher August 20, 2024
• Dstillman - honestly? I manually copied and pasted the folders from my wife's hard drive onto an external backup; nothing more. Encryption is something I suspected as well, only because of how the file(s) behave now, but I have no idea why that wou…

  in Backup Restore Issues - "File is not a Database" Comment by MJLocher August 20, 2024