Hello Colleques Can you please assist me to figure out the password on my Clarion 6 .dct file. I last worked on this dictionary a couple of years and now can’t remember the password or locate it anywhere. I want to upgrade the file to Clarion 9. As I cannot upload the file here, I would apprecia…

Notepad++, with the compare plus addon. Two identical blank dcts, one with password, one without. Compare to files in notepad++ and you can see the lines which have sections that are different. Then using something like https://ghidra-sre.org/ you can reverse engineer the code to workout the pass…

Thanks RchdR. Let me try this though I will need to figure out how to reverse engineer as well.

[image] Is there any way to bypass the password to open clarion .dct file? I tested adding a password to a DCT in 11.1 and viewing the Hex it did Not appear to have been encrypted. You might be able to reverse engineer it using a Hex compare tool to see where…

Thanks all for the guidance received. After struggling a bit trying to workout the password using Ghidra, I tried something else. After realizing the dct was created using Clarion 6 (because Clarion 9 I’m using was creating the conversion backup file for the dct with a .6dct extension), I installed…

How to retrieve a password from a Clarion DCT

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Also see this thread and Carl’s similar suggestion re comparing files with and without a password.