How To Recover A Lost PDF Password
PDF files are excellent ways to pass around your documents are they can be viewed on any computer. Not just machines running Windows.
You can also make your PDFs more secure by putting a password on them. So whenever someone needs to read the sensitive information in the PDF, they need to tap in a password.
Which is fine until the moment you need to open a PDF that’s password protected 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. Or maybe the email with the password has been deleted. Or maybe your view was that you always use one of a handful of passwords so you’d not have a problem remembering it. Maybe the PDF password was set by a colleague who doesn’t work for your company any more.
Ebooks you’ve just bought often have a password to “protect” them (I’ve no idea why they do this). For whatever reason, the product’s owner is paranoid and thinks that every customer has the ulterior motive of stealing their product. My personal view on this is that they should get real. After that, I re-name the PDF file so that it includes the password. That way it’s easy to find the password and I don’t have to hunt through all my emails to find it. I haven’t always done this and some files have had to stay locked.
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.
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