Password protect folder with Action

[cathyj6479889]

What I need to do is create an Action using the Wizard to password protect and restrict editing all PDFs in a folder.

I had one set up on my previous version of Adobe but now I have changed to Adobe Acrobat DC and I've lost my previous actions.

In the Actions Wizard I can't find an option to password protect, only to encrypt which still allows editing of the pdf.

I can do it on a single pdf but need to do a whole folder of pdfs.

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[Bernd Alheit]

What settings in the encrypt step do you use?

Did you add a save step at the end?

[cathyj6479889]

OK, I have at last made some progress with the wizard but it's not quite the same as I had before.

In the options I have no password to open document, ticked restrict editing and printing and I have entered a change permissions password. I have ticked encrypt all document contents.

Now if I try to edit the secured pdf I get a popup asking for a password. If the password is incorrect I get the popup saying document is protected and cannot be edited.

Can I get rid of the popup which asks for the password? The secured pdfs created by my old Action just showed the popup saying it couldn't be edited, didn't ask for a password.

[Bernd Alheit]

cathyj6479889  wrote

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Can I get rid of the popup which asks for the password?

No.

[Test Screen Name]

Isn't it the case that your old secured PDFs also ask for a password in your new software?

[cathyj6479889]

I hadn't tried that but yes, the pdfs that I had secured previously now ask for a password when I try to edit them. So it looks like this is they way it works now. It really shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for all the help.

[try67]

Encrypt and password-protect are the same things, and you can run an Action

on an entire folder.