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- Quicken, like many other "secure" systems, doesn't actually encrypt data at all, but rather stores the password and checks if the uses
- knows it before allowing access to the file. I've found this method extremely common, especially on database systems. Oh, well.
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- All we need to do is convince Quicken that we haven't got a password at all. You'll need a good hex editor to do this. Open up the
- .QDT (or better yet, a backup of it) and set the bytes at the following offsets to 00h: 17445, 17446, and 17447. That's it! Or at least,
- that was it until Intuit developed Quicken 5.0....
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- For Quicken 5.0, you need to open the .QDB and zero out offsets 4425, 4426, and 4427. Same idea, different file, and different
- location. Not bright, are they?
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- Quicken 6.0 apparently uses 4425, 4426, and 4427 again. Thanks to Rudy Montoya for letting me know about 6.0...
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