PDF files are a fantastic was to store computer documents. They can be opened on near enough any computer and the file will look the same as it was originally intended. All sorts of computers: Windows, Linux, Mac, even PDAs and mobile phones.
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. 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. 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 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.
Whatever the reason for the lost PDF password, it means you can't quickly get into the PDF to read it.
There are several ways to get around this problem.
You can give up and hope that there's nothing of importance in the file.
You can tap away using your favorite passwords in the hope that you'll come across the lost password sooner rather than later.
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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