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Post by dpsoftware on Oct 1, 2004 10:02:18 GMT -5
I have a file that has been zipped with a password which contains characters with accent characters. I know the original password but unzipping with vclunzip and Winzip both say the password is incorrect. Any idea how the file can be retreived ? Winzip warns there may be compatibility problems when setting the password to extract. The reason the password got used was that the program uses the original filename in the password and it was running on a non-english machine.
Regards
Dave Peters
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Post by Kevin on Oct 2, 2004 19:54:34 GMT -5
I would have thought that it would work. I would think that the encryption algorithm would still do the same thing with the input password, but apparenly not. :-(
Offhand, I am not sure what might recover the file. I will think about it and if I come up with an idea I will let you know.
Kevin
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Post by dpsoftware on Oct 3, 2004 15:31:57 GMT -5
I think different systems are interpretting the special characters in a different way. If the system that creates the file also reads it, there is no problem.
I got around it by searching for a special character in the password and then trying all possible replacement characters until the unzip succeeded. Since all the affected files only have one special character it is quick to recover them.
Regards
Dave Peters
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