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MS Money password problem

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NODE 5fc3c313MS Money password problem
We recently lost (ok fired) our office manager, but not before she put 
nifty passwords on all the MS Money data we had and now she has, of 
course, gone on a three week vacation.  I have all the relevant WP 
password retrieving mechanisms but not one for MS Money.

Anyone with pointers or programs, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Matt
NODE bc7dbf35Re: MS Money password problem
On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Matt Miszewski wrote:

> We recently lost (ok fired) our office manager, but not before she put 
> nifty passwords on all the MS Money data we had and now she has, of 
> course, gone on a three week vacation.  I have all the relevant WP 
> password retrieving mechanisms but not one for MS Money.
> 
> Anyone with pointers or programs, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Welp, good luck to you.  Of course, this should be a great huge reminder 
of why BACKUPS are important.  If you have a backup of the data >BEFORE< 
she locked it, you only lost anything entered from between the date of 
the backup and "today."

Tim of course has a point.  Strong crypto isn't breakable.  Don't know 
what MS Money uses... :-(

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NODE 7e45ff45Re: MS Money password problem
On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Ray Arachelian wrote:

> Welp, good luck to you.  Of course, this should be a great huge reminder 
> of why BACKUPS are important.  If you have a backup of the data >BEFORE< 
> she locked it, you only lost anything entered from between the date of 
> the backup and "today."

Nope.  the backups are just as protected.  Granted I doubt it is anything 
but trivial, but i do have a regular job and every hour i spend getting 
this password is a billable hour gone...

> =================================================================93=======
>  + ^ + |  Ray Arachelian | Amerika: The land of the Freeh. | \-_    _-/  |
>   \|/  |sunder@escape.com| Where day by day, yet another   |  \  --  /   |
> <--+-->|                 | Constitutional right vanishes.  |6 _\-  -/_  6|
>   /|\  |    Just Say     |                                 |----\  /---- | 
>  + v + | "No" to the NSA!| Jail the censor, not the author!|     \/      |
> =======/---------------------------------------------------------VI------/

Matt