Permissions Password

[lisaq22165441]

Hi, I'm trying to Edit a PDF in Adobe Reader and a window popped up asking for my Permissions Password. When I enter my Adobe password, it's saying that the password is incorrect so it won't allow me to edit at all. The only password I created was for Adobe so I have no idea what this Permissions Password is. Does anyone know how I can recover it or bypass this?

Thanks!

[Bernd Alheit]

Can you post a screenshot of the popup?

[Test Screen Name]

The permissions password is just for this file. No connection to an Adobe password. Ask the PDF creator for it.

[elisseeducation · Accepted solution]

Hi Lisa, just to confirm. A permissions password is issued by the provider of the document to ensure the protection of their content. This password is created from their end and not associated to ADOBE. There are multiple tools that allow people to password protect their documents.

You will need to contact the issuer of the document to unlock the permission.

I hope this helps.

[Sean3190]

Hi,

I have been receiving my monthly payslip in a password protected pdf for a couple of years.

It is the same password each time.

Up until I installed Adobe Pro, I was able to open the pdfs using my password, turn off the password and then save the file without the password.

I now try to do this and it is requesting that I input a Permission Password in order to select "No Security" on the file.

The password I use to open the file is not being accepted as the Permission Password.

This is making no sense to me.  I have contacted the company that issue the pdfs and they have not set any password other than the one I need to open the file.

In order to create a password free version of the file, I now need to open the pdf using the password, then export it to Word, then resave it as a pdf.

This is an incredibly frustrustrating process given it was a click of the button for me up until last month.

Please advise.  Thanks.

Regards,

Seán.

[try67]

It makes complete sense. It is common practice to use different passwords to open the file and to edit it, in order to prevent someone from removing the protection, like you're attempting to do. The people you spoke with were wrong. They are applying two types of password and are unlikely to give you the permissions one. Doing so would be negate the logic behind securing the file in the first place.

[Jacqueline22157251l5zl]

Hi _  I am having the same issue.  I am the author of the document.  I can't combine files because I need a permissions password.  I wasn't asked to create a password so where in the world is the password then?

[craig mc]

I am having the same issue.  I created a PDF and gave it the password 0452 to open.  I wanted to change the security on it to no password, so when I did I opened the document with 0452.  But then when I go to change the security, it tells me I need the permissions password.  I put in 0452 and it wasn't the right password?  I tried my Adobe password but that didn't work either??  How can it have a different password when I created it and only used 0452?  What would be causing this?

[Bernd Alheit]

How have you added the open password?

[Pamela33160723u8q8]

I'm having the same issue. Except, I downloaded a bill in PDF form and I make notes or combine it with the confirmation page when I've paid the bill. Now I need a permissions password. WHY?! I've been doing it like this for YEARS. 

[try67]

Maybe the institution who generates these files decided to protect them since the last time you downloaded it. Files you were able to edit in the past should still be editable, though.

[Ahmad37203029xi4l]

Hi There,

I have the same issue, I have created my own password, I can log in to the PDF file using that password. But I am not able to remove or edit my protection password. 

i can see that been an issue for may years in those messages. 

[Abambo]

Hi There,

I have the same issue, I have created my own password, I can log in to the PDF file using that password. But I am not able to remove or edit my protection password. 

i can see that been an issue for may years in those messages. 

By Ahmad37203029xi4l

It has been an non-issue for many years. Passwords are user selected and applied. If you are the author of the file and applied the protection, you should need to know your passwords. There is no help to be expected from this forum on this behalf, except that we can tell you how to remove passeord protection, if that is what you want. We won't tell you your passwords.

[Ahmad37203029xi4l]

Thanks for your reply,

No I do not need my password, I knew it and I am using it to access the PDF folder using my password. But when I am trying to remove the password or edit the password a wrong password message box show up.

can you remove the password or adive how to do that?

[Abambo]

Thanks for your reply,

No I do not need my password, I knew it and I am using it to access the PDF folder using my password. But when I am trying to remove the password or edit the password a wrong password message box show up.

can you remove the password or adive how to do that?

By Ahmad37203029xi4l

What password do you need to access the "PDF folder"? Are you working online and mean the password for accessing your data on the Document Cloud servers (the Adobe ID).

Post a screenshot of the document properties (security tab).

[Ahmad37203029xi4l]

no not PDF folder access, it is PDF document protection password. I have Encrypted 2 of my documents by createing document access passwrod.

I know the password, and I can open those 2 documents, using my password. But I am not able to remove or edite the password?

[Abambo]

The open password and the modify password may be different. Post the security tab screenshot, as I have asked in my prior message.

[Ahmad37203029xi4l]

see bellow screen shots

  

[Puneet5FA7]

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[Chrsitian]

I have similar issues. I have created photo PDFs which I always was able to save as JPGs and thus have access to my photos. That was on a computer with Windows 7, now I have Windows 10 and I can not save my own PDFs as jpgs because I do not have the Permission Password, which I never set in the first place.

[try67]

How did you create the PDF file, originally?

[Chrsitian]

With CS4 InDesign o my daktop. Have been doing this for years and never run into this problem.

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[Chrsitian]

Sorry, my last post should of course read as follows:


With CS4 InDesign on my desktop. Have been doing this for years and never run into this problem.