Check a file is passwordprotected or not

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Hi
I have a folder which contains files of format(DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,JPEG,PDF,PNG,PPT,RTF,TIF,TIFF,TXT,XLS,XLSX).
These files may or may not be password protected.

I need to know whether each of the files are password protected or not?

Thanks in advance

Posted 18-Feb-13 1:33am

jasen.selvaraj

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ZurdoDev 18-Feb-13 7:54am

I believe you'll have to use the Office libraries to check if any of the office files are password protected. However, things like jpg, tif, how would they be password protected?

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 18-Feb-13 8:06am

My thoughts exactly! I'll guess OP will have to a bit more specific about what he thinks "password protected" means in this context.
Most of the extensions don't make any sense: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TIF, TIFF, TXT.

Marco Bertschi 18-Feb-13 9:12am

COM.Interop.#officeproduct# to be exact. OP definately needs to be more specific!

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Hasham Ahmad · Answer 1 · 2013-02-18T10:18:00

VB

Sub MyMacro()

Dim oDoc As Document

On Error Resume Next

Set oDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:="C:\MyFile.doc", PasswordDocument:=password)
Select Case Err.Number
    Case 0
     Debug.Print "File was processed."

    Case 5408
     'Debug.Print "Wrong password!"

    Case Else
     MsgBox Err.Number & ":" & Err.Description
End Select

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