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Question

Help! I have a problem

Aug 28, 2018 4:42PM PDT

Hopefully someone can help me. I am in desperate need of being able to access and open a pdf file with a strong password on it. I have tried to do this on my own. But to no avail, I am at my wits end trying to solve this on my own. I feel woefully inadequate for this task. Can someone please help me?
I did write down the password and can find it no where! So. PLEASE. Someone. Help?

Thank you in advance.

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Clarification Request
Have you tried the usual unlockers?
Aug 28, 2018 5:37PM PDT
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Thank you for replying
Aug 29, 2018 3:39PM PDT

I have a question - what is the point of using an unlocker program if you already know the password? Could you not just go a head and type it in when prompted?

You seeeeee, my problem is I can not find, as hard I have tried, the password. And I did write it down. I cannot find it anywhere. i cannot remember it. I have tried every password that I do have written down and not a one of them worked.

Now, pray tell, what can I do? I feel at my wit's end with this and way out of my depth. The skills to do this lay not in my wheelhouse.

Thank you, R
Mama

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Since you could not type in the password.
Aug 29, 2018 3:56PM PDT

I had to think of another way.

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Thank you for replying
Aug 29, 2018 4:55PM PDT

Well, please let me know what you come up with.
Mama

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In my reply above https://www.sodapdf.com/unlock-pdf/
Aug 29, 2018 5:30PM PDT
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Thank you for replying
Aug 29, 2018 6:23PM PDT

I tried it already. It asks me for the password, which I lost and cannot remember. So, what is the point of this program? Any other suggestions?

Mama

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Time to ask the folk you got it from
Aug 30, 2018 10:23AM PDT

For a new copy. Any other PDF unlocker looks to cost money so I can't offer any since I don't know those companies. Only used this one.