Windows 11 Unlock RMS-Protected files with .PFILE extension

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Hi there,when tinkering with my filesystem and OS, I found some of my files to be unopenable. They were files I tried to protect from other users with the Windows built-in tool I identified as RMS-Protection (The one that puts a lock icon on every file you protect). When trying to unlock them as usual to be usable again they had changed from a casual file with a lock icon to an unopenable file with a ".PFILE" extension like this: "my_file.extension.PFILE"I might have moved the files around on different filesystems and encrypted them temporarily using BitLocker and/or LUKS-Encryption which prob

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