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3.1 Lost Password

If you have set a password and later forget what it was, you will not be able to access your encrypted private notes. The only way to recover from this situation and reset your password is to erase the application data.

  1. If you have any private notes which were not encrypted (because they were created without a password,) change them so they are not private.
  2. Export a backup copy of your Note Pad data, but do not include private notes.
  3. Exit the Note Pad application, and open up the Android Settings. App_drawer

    (The following sequence may vary depending on your version of Android.)

  4. Choose “Apps” Settings-Apps
  5. Choose “Note Pad” Settings-Apps-NotePad
  6. Select “Storage & Cache” Settings-App-Storage
  7. Press the “Clear storage” button, and confirm that you really want to do this. Settings-App-Storage-Clear
  8. Exit all the way out of the Android Settings, and go back to the Note Pad application. It should now be empty.
  9. Import the file you had previously backed up.
  10. If you had any notes which were private but not encrypted, change them back to private.
  11. Set a new password. Make sure you remember this one!

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