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I tried to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 but it crashed. It couldn't mount disk drives so I did a new installation without erasing the previous drives. Now I can't access access-your-private-data.

Eliah Kagan
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prr
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I have this same problem, and discovered ecryptfs-recover-private from Dustin Kirkland's blog. This utility interactively asks for your login password, which I have, and then mounted my old home directory in /tmp/ecrypt.hAsHeD and I am now able to copy out everything I need.

shapr
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From @shapr's answer:

I have this same problem, and discovered ecryptfs-recover-private from Dustin Kirkland's blog. This utility interactively asks for your login password, which I have, and then mounted my old home directory in /tmp/ecrypt.hAsHeD

I had to add the directory of my /.Private to make it works:

sudo ecryptfs-recover-private /home/.ecryptfs/david/davidgb/.Private
[sudo] Mot de passe de davidĀ : 
INFO: Found [/home/.ecryptfs/david/davidgb/.Private].
Try to recover this directory? [Y/n]: y
INFO: Found your wrapped-passphrase
Do you know your LOGIN passphrase? [Y/n] y
INFO: Enter your LOGIN passphrase...
Passphrase: 
Inserted auth tok with sig [83f90551aa14b856] into the user session keyring
INFO: Success!  Private data mounted at [/tmp/ecryptfs.Gko7hLsl].