First post, by Kerr Avon
I have a RAR file that I need to open, but I don't have the exact password that it uses, so I've googled for programs to get around the password, but from what they say, they all seem to try every possible combination of characters, which will apparently take forever, since the password is around fifteen characters. I know that because I (the idiot typing this...) created the rar file (it's basically a collection of work documents) and I always use the same fourteen character password with a single digit number added to the end for all work related stuff.
The problem is that when I typed the password to create the RAR file then I must have mis-typed it, so the password needed to unRAR the file isn't what it should have been. So the required password is probably the usual password plus one digit (fifteen characters in all), only with one character wrong (probably it's from the next keyboard key of what it should have been), or perhaps the password is only fourteen characters (if I didn't press one of the keys all the way down), or sixteen characters (if I pressed two keys at once). So I was hoping I could find a utility that I could enter the proper password in, and it would then try to enter ever possible variation of that password into WinRAR.
And yes, I do usually test the passworded files before I send them to work, but I was rushing because I was going out (it was later than I thought) hence the rushed typing. And because I was in a hurry, I didn't enable the "Show password" option in WinRAR, so it just showed as asterixes when I created the RAR file.
I've tried entering the correct password in in capitals (it's normally in lower case) in case CAPS LOCK was on when I created the RAR, but that's not the solution, sadly.
Can anyone suggest anything? If it's not possible then fair enough, but if I can't open the file then I'll have lost some hours work, which of course I'd rather avoid having to repeat if possible.