Recovering Lost PDF Passwords
PDF files are excellent ways to pass around your documents are they can be viewed on any computer. Not just machines running Windows.
It’s also possible to keep your PDFs from prying eyes by password protecing them. Before the PDF can be opened, the person who wants to read the file needs to enter a password.
Which is fine until you need to open a password protected PDF file but you’ve put the password somewhere “safe”. Maybe the email is at home and you can’t access that PC from wherever you are. It could be you’ve changed your email address or the email was on your old computer and never got swapped across. Or you thought “I’ll always remember that password” and never wrote it down. It could be the PDF was protected by someone who no longer works for your company.
Ebooks you’ve just bought often have a password to “protect” them (I’ve no idea why they do this). For some reason, the product owner thinks that because you’ve just paid them good money, you’re now going to rip them off. Personally I think that treating customers like thieves will make them more open to sharing files. And I then promptly re-name the file with the password included so that I won’t have to remember where the password was stored. I didn’t always do this and some early PDFs I’ve bought are still locked as not only have I lost the email but the firm I bought the ebook from no longer exists.
Often you only realize a password has been lost at the last minute. So you need to retrieve the password quickly.
There are a few ways round this.
You can give up and hope that there’s nothing of importance in the file.
If you’ve got time on your hands, you can start to enter all your “favorite” password combinations. Usually in the vain hope that you’ll quickly find the password you used to protect the file.
You can get hold of a cheap PDF password recovery program that will do all the hard work for you and will find the lost PDF password for you in a matter of minutes.
Check out one of the best PDF password recovery programs I’ve found.
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