How to retrieve the password given for a .sdf file

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I have created one .sdf file with a password...i forgot the password i gave

Please tell me how to open that..it's urgent

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Posted 18-Mar-13 1:38am

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Prasad Khandekar 18-Mar-13 7:48am

Try googling. There is no easy way.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-03-18T01:48:00

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You can't - that is pretty much the whole idea.
If you could get teh password back that easily, then so could anyone else, which would defeat teh whole idea of password protecting the file in the first place!

Sorry, but unless you can try a brute force "try every possible combination of letters it might be" approach (and that may take some considerable time to run) you have lost your data.

Posted 18-Mar-13 1:48am

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[no name] 18-Mar-13 7:55am

Ok..Then no way i get get back my data..??

OriginalGriff 18-Mar-13 8:24am

Afraid not - that is what passwords are for: to keep people who don't know it away from your data! :laugh: