Re: [libreoffice-users] password problem

On Thursday 04 August 2011 23:54:24 Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 08:44 PM, Bob Stia wrote:
> > I have a document that I have had for years. Time to time I must open it,
> > edit it and close it again. It is Libreoffice password protected.  A few
> > days ago I opened the fdocument and then after editing closed it agaim.
> > The other night I tried to open it again and the password failed.
>
> Bob
Thanks for the repies, to the three of you. I will answer Bill first. The 
other two suggestions will require some work but I will try them and report 
back.

> Look at what happens carefully. Even experiment on another test doc to
> see a slight difference that may be significant.
>
> I've experienced password failures on password protected documents part
> way through the loading process after it successfully took my password
> and then manufactured a bogus password failure message a certain
> distance into the loading process.
>
> The password failure messages are different depending on if you really
> keyed in a wrong password or it pops up a bogus message.
>
> Create a test document, password protect it and then ATTEMPT to open it
> with a bad password. Is that the password message your real doc is
> getting or is it another one? The other one is a bogus message after the
> file's been corrupted.


OK, as you suggested I created a test document and followed your advice.
The failure messages on both my doc and the terst doc were exactly the same 
and failed immediately. No loading. I used bogey passwords several times on 
the test doc and then used the correct one. It opened prroperly so there was 
no corruption from trying that.

Thanks for trying to help. It is appreciated.

Bob S
> I noticed this on a large spreadsheet that takes quite a while to load.
> It would take my password, start to load, and then fail some seconds
> later on some internal error and puts up a bogus message.
>
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> Bill Gradwohl
> Roatan, Honduras
> 504 9 899 2652

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