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I applied encryption with fscrypt on my home folder on Linux Mint. But now I decided to remove encryption and try something else. I read through the readme of the project, but I couldn't really find exact instructions, how to remove encryption. I have an assumption it could be done maybe by making a backup and deleting the home folder itself and with the fscrypt metadata command. But I'm not sure about it. Does anyone know the exact steps to achieve this.

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I think you can't remove encryption. So to achieve that :

  1. Copy home files elsewhere (note that having good backups is considered a good practice)
  2. Remove /home/theuser directory
  3. Create a new /home/theuser directory and apply owner-group permissions
  4. Copy files back home

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