other documents i have saved with password you have to enter password to see What did i do different
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I have seen this happening in two cases
- When you save to the legacy Microsoft “.doc” format. AFAIK this format does not support encryption. The good old solution when you used Word and couldn’t open your document because you forgot the password: Install OpenOffice which would bypass the password.
- When autorecovery kicks in. The recovery info seems to be saved wihout encryption (which may also be a security issue in some contexts).
I believe that this may also happen when the original source document was an old Word file. Not sure about this, though. Some older files from colleagues have been known to display erratic behavior.
Solution for those cases
- Copy all content to a new, blank document
- save that to “.odt” format with password protection enabled
heh…
- DOC has encryption; it indeed used to be weak, but still you won’t be able to open a password-protected DOC in LO without the password.
- The issue with non-encrypted autorecovery is fixed since version 4.3/4.2.3/4.1.6 (tdf#51819). Since then, autorecovery for foreign encrypted formats was not working at all until recently (tdf#118639 fixed for 6.4/6.3.5). Absent autorecovery could not expose the encrypted information, just made it vulnerable to edits loss on crash. So since 2014, this is also not a possible reason…
but what could be a reason, I can’t imagine 