Azure Information Protection
An Azure service that is used to control and help secure email, documents, and sensitive data that are shared outside the company.
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PFILE type not recognized in Azure Information Protection Viewer after moving files to new machine.
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Svend la Rose
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Hello!
I got a new laptop for Christmas and recently moved my files from my old box over to the new one. They were not ;.PFILE files on my old machine, but on the new one, they now have .PFILE attached to the old filenames. I still have the old machine and could conceivably transfer the files back, but what should I do once I do that, to get the protection off the files so I can read them on my new box?
@Saurabh Sharma answered a similar question before, but that was a different case in which the old machine was no longer available. In this case, the old machine is available, hence my new question.