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I have changed my laptop's hard drive for a bigger one, and because the installation of elemmentary was corrupted somehow (didn't start the OS)

Now when I mount the hard drive as an external drive, I can't access the data inside the /home folder because it's encrypted, but I don't remember what is the password that I have set to that folder.

Is there any way to "break" the encryption of that folder?

Thanks in advance!

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  • Do you remember your login password?
    – Suici Doga
    Commented Mar 5, 2016 at 10:49
  • I've used the answer given down below. It works perfectly but until now I couldn't mark it as a correct answer, sorry for any inconvenience and thanks!
    – a.ras2002
    Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 7:44
  • Ok. So problem solved
    – Suici Doga
    Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 7:52
  • Yes, luckily for me it was solved!
    – a.ras2002
    Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 11:58

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Is there any way to "break" the encryption of that folder?

Yes, there is. This post here seems similar to yours. You should also read the official Ubuntu Documentation about Encrypted /home folder, here: Encrypted home folder

In order to decrypt a whole filesystem: Mount encrypted volumes from command line? See the first answer.

Here is the official Ubuntu Documentation for mounting encrypted external filesystems: EncryptedFilesystemsOnExternalStorage

You should also read about LUKS(Linux Unified Key Setup), the disk encryption system in Linux. Here is a full detailed wiki on LUKS: LUKS: Linux Unified Key Setup

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