Hello,
Is there a way I can find out which files have a password to open? I have ran across a bunch of word documents that are protected with a password. I do not need to know how to hack the password, just want to know if Dopus can identify the ones that are protected.
thanks
This might be interesting:
Skipping Password-Protected Documents in a Batch Process
word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/Che ... B4Open.htm
any thoughts on where how I would run this?
The script doesn't seem to run "as is"... threw some errors for me about the lines doing the typecastings. I can peek at it later tonight to see if the example in this script can be used easily to do what you want to do. For example - you could probably use the method displayed in that script in a slightly larger script written to recurse through a folder structure for all *.doc files, test them for password protection, and then do something like add the protected files to an Opus file collection... Stuff like that.
@Steje
I haven't tried the script yet.
Not sure at all as to why you're getting typecasting errors.
The files you used were all MS Docs ?
I'm using Open Office here.
I'm still PHP oriented and know only a bare minimum of VBScript.
After some good thought though I think your're right on this one.
If you can do the recursive search in VBScript, I think you may have it.
Adding the 5408 error trap result to a file collection seems the correct thing to do.
Great find by Christiaan !
I don't have a better idea.
Good Luck in your efforts when you have the proper time for this !