It looks like its an important file you are having trouble with. The somewhat 'jumbled' password leads me to believe that the file has gotten corrupt somehow (it is on a fairly old HDD). I have tried WinRars own Repair tool, but that gives me the message: Now here is another odd thing: The password that was 'found' was a password that included some of my own recognizable 'words', but in a combo I can swear I would never ever have used! Also there seems to be a few extra letters in the password as well.Īnyway, now, when I use this 'found password' for the rar-file, WinRar now gives me a different error message saying: I spent hours trying every conceivable password-combo I can think of, but always the above message remained.Įventually I found a software that could brute force the password, based on my own dictionary of 'word'-combos i could possibly have used for the password. ' Checksum error in the encrypted file.Corrupt file or wrong password. I was(am) pretty sure I remembered the password, but when I tried to extract it I got an error message saying:

The RAR-file is fairly large, about 2.2 GB. A few years ago I created a very important password protected RAR-file.

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