Unencryption problems - HELP!!!

[James Michael Fultz]

* Edgars Šmits <ed.smits at gmail.com> [2010-02-10 10:30 +0000]:
> I have totally screwed the pooch this time, I think. I installed the
> alternate version of 64 bit Koala, and for some stupid reason chose to
> "encrypt" my home directory. Of course, I didn't understand it at the
> time, was in a hurry, and didn't pay any attention to what I was
> doing...
> 
> To make a long story short, my old laptop died but the hard drive was
> OK. I mounted it as an external USB drive, wanted to access it to save
> the data, nada, the home partition is encrypted. I tried to run
> "/usr/bin/ecryptfs-mount-private", but error out with "ERROR:
> Encrypted private directory is not setup properly"
> 
> Am I hosed or can I somehow either break the encryption or else fix
> the setup problem?
> 
> Hoping for a quick answer other than, boy, you are really stupid<G>
> 
> Ed the idiot - I back up everyone else's data, didn't back up my own....

DON'T PANIC!

Your data should still be intact.

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory#Recovering%20Your%20Mount%20Passphrase>

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory#Recovering%20Your%20Data%20Manually>