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. 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 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 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 some reason, the product owner thinks that because you’ve just paid them good money, you’re now going to rip them off. My personal view on this is that they should get real. 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 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 simply ignore the file in the hope that your failure to open it won’t matter.

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 retrieve the PDF password you’ve lost in just a few minutes.

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