forgot password pages

I have exacythe same problem. I know exactly what the password is and remember it and the story behind it vividly, but it may not be working because of where I am trying to access it from. I wrote the document on my school iPad , but since it was wiped clean every year, I sent the document to my grandparents, who were the only other people with a personal apple device I knew at the time. I then sent the document back to myself in an email. It's maybe three years after I did that, and I definitely know what the password is, but it still isn't letting me in and isn't providing a hint. Fortunately the document isn't crucial, but it would be very nice and very useful to be able to get into it.

Is it possible that you have tried opening a Pages '09 document in Pages 5 or 6?

Try opening it in Pages '09.

Peter

PS Giving absolutely no details as to what you are using is not a great start to getting a useful reply.

I know this is an old question but I had the lock out issue on a pages document today. I knew the password logged in and made some edits. After I made changes to the pages document and saved it, I tried to reopen it after saving it. It denied me access many times.

I went to Time Machine and found the file I needed. I restored it to the time right before my edits and was able to recover what I had prior to the new changes.

I hope this helps someone.

Laul,

You are not the first person to come with that problem. The answer is the same as always - if the password is lost, the content is lost too. Are you sure you didn't save the password anywhere? You were prompted for a Hint when you applied the password. Did you provide one?

Jerry

If you lost your Document password in Pages, there is a way to recover the password but only if it's a recent recent Document, the system password settings are correct and most importantly, you are the System Administrator.

In the Applications Icon on the Dock, open your Utilities File and click on "Keychain Access." After it opens and in the far left column under "Category," click on "...Passwords." If they are not Alphabetized already, click "NAME" at the top of the column it will alphabetize all the Passwords Names. Find "Password.pages," click on and it will bring up the "ATTRIBUTES/ACCESS CONTROL" and click the "SHOW PASSWORD" box. Enter the System Password and it will show you the password.

I heard there is another way to hack the password through "TERMINAL" but it's very involved and rather lengthy. I lost a password for an older document and hope that someone has the knowledge to open it by using another program or the steps necessary to open it through Terminal.

But Come'on Apple!... There has to be a way to open the Document. If Team *GhostShell can Hack and Publish one million records, allegedly from banks, government agencies, consulting firms and others, a simple document should be opened if the password is lost or forgotton. I believe privacy concerns will not allow any Apple Employee to help but there should be a way if the System Administrator on a single system lost or forgot their password.

*http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57501931-83/hackers-vow-hellfire-in-latest-majo r-data-leak/

Laul,

Please don't mistake my comment. I beleive that if you apply a password and then forget or lose the password, the file should be lost. If it is possible to bypass the password, the password feature is of little value.

I'm sorry about your misfortune.

Jerry

Well,

Mine is a bit weird.

At first, I set a password to a specific document, and been using the same password for almost a thousand time, BUT today I tried to go in my document, but Pages won't let me in and it said it's a wrong password (?!), plus I NEVER change my password and how come suddenly my password didn't work....

Please help...

Thanks,

Marco

Hi! I hope you are seeing this. I have the same problem as him, and my file is a recent one yet I guess is due to the change of OSX, I can no longer find the button u taught. Is there any methods for the latest OS X version that can help me with my file? Thanks loads

I had the same problem, unfortunately you can't discover or recovered the password if you did not (select) 'add to keychain' when creating or entering the correct password one of the previous times.

Technically, the password is "hash"ed inside the document so there is no way even apple can recover it. Except of course they used a different technique (Which I doubt very much)

However, in my case I kept trying for hours till I tried an all lower case version of my normal password. The point being you might have slightly altered the password you suspect to be the password. So don't give up if its an important file.

You responded to a 4-year old post. Any chance the OP is still trying to remember that forgotten password at this point? 😁

Common!, People still visit a thread years after to find a solution just as I did today myself.

Also, you might want to update your name to VikingMacOS - Just saying 😁😁

Hi. Same problem. Nothing very important, but irritating that I have forgotten the password on two documents, and don´t remember what´s on them. (Never drink and write:-))

However, just tested once again and found out: If you right click the document and open the Package Content, you can see a Jpg-image of the first page. Didn´t help me much, but now I can throw them without wondering what was on them. Good luck.