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  • Jan 19, 2009, 10:36 AM
    sashacohen1976
    Old Yahoo password
    I forgot my Yahoo password... so I went to Yahoo, and typed in all my info... and a link was sent to my alternate email to reset my password... so I got that taken care off...

    But my old password, that I have forgotten, was the same password for another account...

    So in order to access the other account, I need to know my old Yahoo password...

    How can I do this ?
  • Jan 19, 2009, 10:40 AM
    this8384

    Unless the other site has a feature like that of Yahoo! you can't. Updated safety features to almost every website no longer allow you to find out what your old password was; it merely allows you to reset it through an e-mail.
  • Jan 19, 2009, 01:28 PM
    sashacohen1976

    The other site doesn't offer that... anyway around it on Yahoo ?
  • Jan 19, 2009, 01:43 PM
    this8384

    Not as far as I'm aware. They used to just show you your old password but that made it too easy to break into other people's accounts; that's why it's set up the way it is now. Can I ask which site you're trying to access?
  • Jan 19, 2009, 02:27 PM
    sashacohen1976

    Its not a commercial online acct... its a login...
  • Jan 19, 2009, 02:32 PM
    this8384

    They should still have some option if you forget your password, whether it's e-mailing you a temporary one or resetting it directly on the site.
  • Jan 19, 2009, 02:45 PM
    sashacohen1976

    Its not a site... its a personal document I password protected years ago, and now I need to access it but have no clue what the password is... thats what I meant by "its not an online commercial acct"
  • Jan 19, 2009, 02:47 PM
    this8384

    What program did you use to create the document?

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