Password Protected rAr files

[hjpotter92]

I had some years ago created some RAR files which I protected by different passwords. I am now confused which file has which password. I do not even remeber some of them. Is there something which can help me out. I have tried this: this. But it's a shareware, and didn't help much.

[CA50]

Try Advanced Archive Password Recovery

http://www.elcomsoft.com/archpr.html

have fun buddy

[hjpotter92]

I am not able to download it. It refreshes the page.

[Aspire]

http://www.rarpasswordcracker.com/rpc412.zip

[hjpotter92]

Didn't help much.

[Fire bird]

The password can be cracked only by brute force method.
And brute force takes from few minutes to many years(depend on password length & ur CPU,RAM ).
So if it is very important all the best....

[CA50]

Originally Posted by hjpotter92

I am not able to download it. It refreshes the page.

try this
http://www.elcomsoft.com/download/archpr.zip

[6x6]

brute force method will do the job but it wold take too much time for password more than 8-10 characters ---more than 24 hours (for longer passwords it is unpractical). if you remember some of characters of password it may reduce the time to crack password.
I once recovered 5 character password within 15 minutes.

[Aspire]

hmm What does Brute Force Method do?
Does it try all the available options like Dictionary Attack?

[CA50]

Originally Posted by Aspire

hmm What does Brute Force Method do?
Does it try all the available options like Dictionary Attack?

it tries every possible combination of letters, digit and symbols

[hjpotter92]

I tried some of the very common passwords, and luckily, most of my archieves were opened.

BTW, thanks to all of you.