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How do I recover my data from an encrypted home directory?

Something seems to be preventing me from logging into Xubuntu. I've attempted to retrieve my files by booting into a Live environment but the folder was encrypted. How should I approach this?

  • exactly what did you do for your situation? – VENKI Nov 22 '11 at 15:49
  • What did you do that might have caused this (changed settings? installed software? etc.), or is this just suddenly happening? – Jesper Nov 22 '11 at 15:49
  • What have you done? Have you perhaps installed anny drivers? Looks like a crashing X server. If there are any installed, try using a different desktop environment. – RobinJ Nov 22 '11 at 16:00
  • Did you try to switch to console mode and log in? If it's an X issue, using the console may allow you to accessing your files and copy them to usb / floppy / network drive. But you will have to use the standard linux tools like ls, cp, cd and so on to work with your files. – tohuwawohu Nov 22 '11 at 16:12

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Try ctrl+alt+F1, it will bring you to text console. Enter your username and pass, and see what's going on. You will know if it's X Server fault or login credentials are incorrect.

If you log in, copy your data to USB stick.

Robert Mutke
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