I locked a Pages document and forgot my password. Any way to recover it?

Hi There!

This sounds very frustrating. Have you tried Opening Utilities, Keychain Access, then under Category click on Passwords? Look for Password.pages. click on it and it should bring up the Attributes/access control. Click SHOW PASSWORD box. Enter your System Password that you use to log on the the machine and it should show you the password.

Best of luck Descoteaux.

I am not seeing Password.pages. Rather, I see separate pages document names in the Keychain Password category. One can select an individual pages file, right-click, and choose Get Info. This will pop a Keychain Attributes panel for the document, and at the bottom, is a box: Show password. When you click that Show password box, you will get a challenge:

Enter your login password, click Allow, and you will be taken back to the previous Attributes panel with the document password displayed.

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Security is security, unlike the assurance of "your data is secure" by major credit worthiness agencies this one is for real.

You didn't want anyone, just using a quick and easy trick, to get into your document did you?

Peter

That is a genuinely useful tip! Thank you Descoteaux.

Hopefully the keychains have survived the intervening System upgrades.

Peter

No recovery possible unless you happen to remember the password.