Acrobat passwords

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September 17, 2025
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Why do documents (pdf) duplicate when creating a password?

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Correct answer Amal.

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~Amal

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

It is the application's design behaviour. Adobe Acrobat Premium and Pro DC subscribers can password-protect PDFs to secure confidential information. Setting a password creates a protected copy without changing the original file.

For more information, please check the help page https://adobe.ly/4gqYjYp

~Amal

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MsW_2708

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The answer makes no sense because I want to protect the original. The behavior needs to be upgraded. The whole idea is to protect the document in its original format. Not make a copy to protect and not auto duplicate. I want to protect the original and have that one file not a protected and unprotected that's two files. By the way, my first protected file did not duplicate. So the behavior was fine on first document the following documents duplicated- bad behavior.

Amal.

Correct answer

Community Manager

Hi there

Hope you are doing well.

Please share your feedback with the development team using this link https://adobe.ly/4pRdIFM for their consideration and future implementation.

~Amal

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