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HANS, thanx for quick reply. I don’t want to go thru that hassle every time a .PPS shows up in my Windows Mail. 99% of the time, I’ll want to just look at it, then delete it, so I’m hoping for a solution to the problem.

HANS: Dynamite! Thank you! I exhausted so many resources and could not find the answer. I sure appreciate your help!

ALAN: Problem is that I don’t know what the original data is. I have about 50 or more passwords in the original. I could live with re-entering everything — if I could just get access to it!

JOE: It automatically installed into C:Program Files.

DOC: IN new install there is no .ppd file. It’s created as password data is added.

DOC: In the new install there is no .ppd file. The user builds it as they enter info into the database.

JOE: .ppd file is in Password Pal folder where it belongs. (Just in case cannot solve current puzzle, I tried finding via Google way to open this file so I can at least re-enter content (about 50 passwords). No luck. One suggestion was Notepad or Wordpad. In both instances, produced just computer code garbage.)

Bob Arlow

ALAN: I had the same thought. Unfortunately, not the answer. Across all files no attributes were checked and all security settings were the same.

Wow, I thought you just might have the answer, it seemed so logical. Unfortunately, that was not the case. All the files had no attributes checked, not Read or Hidden. Burrowing further into those blasted permissions and security settings, everything was same.

STEVE: The .GID file is not an actual part of the working program. It wasn’t on the old computer and so it didn’t transfer here to new computer.

ALAN: Thanks for taking the time to reply. As I pointed out in my original post (at least I hope I did), I had been using PASSWORD PAL for years on an old Win ME computer. Now I have installed it on my new 64-bit Vista machine. It does work and I can indeed use it if I forget about the long list of passwords and start a new list. I copied that database file (writerbob.ppd) from the old computer using a flash drive and then copied it into the new Vista machine, into the Password Pal folder. The program seems to know it’s there — it shows up when I try to access it — but won’t let me open it.

So far (one week) so good. So far I find that 64-bit Vista will accept older software (some of it years older). One blasted nuisance about Vista: those miserable PERMISSIONS.

STUART: Thanks for your patience — and your interest. Yes, I did confuse the issue. My focus is to have one or more anonymous e-addresses (NOT confidential encryption) to replace the anonymous e-addresses I’ll lose when I shut off Earthlink. In my new ISP I can set up multiple e-mail accounts, but not with anonymity attached.

Thanks for your rapid reply. I want to send confidential e-mail to others and receive confidential e-mail. Right now I’m using Earthlink dial-up and their webmail provides a group of anonymous e-addresses that I access when I go on Eartlink’s webmail. But I’ll be leaving that service when I go to cable Internet which Earthlink cannot provide.

HANS: Many thanks for replying so quickly. I appreciate the info — especially about the FREE conversion service at PDF Online. Thanks again!