After getting several nasty viruses, including one that shut my computer down 5 minutes upon booting to blue screen of death with a phone number to call that most likely wanted my credit card number (I kicked that virus in the ass), the password cracker I was running was having no luck cracking my password on this found novel after several days. And of course, my cats like to shut the laptop down while I'm sleeping, so sometimes I need to start over.
Basically, if you forget the password on a work doc, you need to bork the formatting on the doc file, try to open it in word with the repair and open option, and you will find the password. And I found it and have no idea why I set it as the password back in 2000. Perhaps I intended on using it as a characters name? I don't try to understand how my mind works. When I set my mind that I'm going to do something, I get super frustrated until I get it done. Hence all the viruses. But I got it done and can now edit this novel when I get around to it. The kicker is that I nearly killed my laptop with viruses to crack this password and apparently I had only written one paragraph back in 2000, set a password, and forgot about it. I remember the plot and where I'm going with it, but there are 2 novels I'm working on that I could have spent a few nights working on instead of obsessing about this file.
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