Last weekend I upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04.
After the upgrade I logged-in using my old user and password, and I noticed that my home folder is empty, except encrypted files (I logged-in using the same user and password that I used when it asked me to encrypt the home folder).
I think that when I upgraded, the files were encrypted and for some reason after the upgrade it didn't decrypt them automatically, like it always does when logging in, and now I don't have access to my files from my own user.
I tried to decrypt them manually using every solution that I found on Google, including ecryptfs-recover-private and ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase but it didn't fix the problem, and the error message claims that my log-in passphrase isn't correct. But I'm sure that my password is correct otherwise I wouldn't be able to log in to my old user.
Please notice that I wasn't asked to remember any other passphrase when I was asked to encrypt my files.
I think there might be a bug with this feature because I saw many posts of people that suffered from the same problem and couldn't find a solution for that.
I'm very sad that I lost all my files just because of upgrading. :(
I'd be happy to hear any ideas that you have... Appreciate your help!!!
PS- I'm quite new here in the Ubuntu community
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