Denied access to my own encrypted files

A while ago I made a backup of my data to an external hard drive. Some of those files are encrypted. For some reason, I am denied access to them.I can't use properties to uncheck the encrypt files option - it's greyed out, and it's already unchecked.I am the administrator of this PC and only have one user account - although there are multiple profiles listed when looking at permissions settings. I'm trying to access the files on the same PC where they were encrypted in the first place.I've...

Denied access to my own encrypted files

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