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From: neruda@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Steve Neruda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: deprotecting stacks
Message-ID: <1511@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 09:55:51 EST
Article-I.D.: tut.1511
Posted: Thu Nov 12 09:55:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 16:44:37 EST
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
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Thanks to the people who reponded to my need to break protection on a stack I
  had forgotten the passwd.  I am still troubled by a problem with these  
  deprotection method (I recieved two methods); neither work when private 
  access has been set.

The stack named 'deprotect' will deprotect a stack that you have lost your 
   passwd for as long as private access has not been set. If it has it will
   damage the stack in such a way that it cannot be accessed even with the
   correct passwd (I tested this on a number of experimental stacks)

The other modification that is suppose to make hypercard ignore the passwd
  also fails when easy access is set

These are problems that are for the most part insignificant and yet, 
  working in a university setting as a mac support person, I'm sure
  that sooner or later I will run across someone who has protected their
  only copy of a stack and are unable to remember the passwd.  The fact
  that deprotect also damages the stack from being accessable with the 
  correct passwd is bothersome

			--steve neruda