How to unlock expired pdf files
Fix PDF This document has expired - How to Open Expired PDF's
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everyone in this video today I'm going
to show you how to open up the PDF that
has been security locked in terms of
time so I have the file here it's going
to double click and you may get
something like this a green screen that
it doesn't allow you to look at any new
content now the reason being is your
viewer downloaded this somewhere from
the internet there's a security feature
that you can put on PDFs here's a date
feature so you might download on a
certain date and the person who's
created it's locked it to only to expire
on a certain time which means that you
get that green screen so where are your
fault i coded if you haven't got a few
similar to this just click on view and
then go to details another way you can
do this too is select your file and just
right click and go to properties and
here it'll tell you the date this was
created and modified so in this case
only look at the modified date because
the creator that's going to be incorrect
because of I've copied this file from
its original location to here so today
it was actually created today in this
folder but actually downloaded it on the
7th of March of this year so we need to
do is cancel out of there is to remind
ourselves of that date because we're
going to change the date on our windows
another way you can do this too with
this view is just to right click up here
and make sure date modified is selected
which we have here as well it's another
way to get the date so then we're going
to go down to the clock we're going to
right-click on the clock and then we're
going to go up to adjust date and time
and then left click and you'll see here
the time has been set automatically
let's turn that off and then we're going
to go here and click on change and then
we're going to change the date to the
7th of March 2018 as the date we looked
at before now click on change
I'll leave this open for a moment and
I'm going to just double-click on the
file as you can see we've actually
opened the file now we don't have the
green screen at all at this stage you
could just stop here if you wanted to
just wanted access to file one time but
if you wanted to make this a permanent
thing so you can just open this without
having to change a clock every time what
we're going to need to do is download
another PDF printing driver I've tried a
few and there's one that I found that
actually worked pretty well so the
website is free PDF creator org
and I simply just clicked on the free
download I've already downloaded this so
it's going to ask me you want to
overwrite this file I was gonna click on
save so I was gonna click yes so
wherever your download area is on your
computer for your web browser where it's
dealing the files go to there and you
want to open up the solid PDF creator
file so I'll just lift click on that I'm
probably not gonna run the whole thing
because I've already installed it it'll
probably want to uninstall it well it's
a installing anyway so it didn't even
give me an option so we'll just wait for
that so try to understand how it's
reinstalling on the screen just ask you
for standard installation or custom the
only difference I could tell between the
two is where it's going to save it on
your computer so I think in most cases
most people will be happy with just
leave it in stand alone or standard
sorry
and then what it's got to tick this box
here and then click on next and now it
is installing the program and we'll
click on finish now let's go back to our
PDF so it's the one that's we were able
to get into by changing the date so what
we need to do now is go down to
properties click on file and properties
let's go to the Security tab and we'll
just make sure there's no security on
that and it's click OK and click OK
again I'm not sure that steps absolutely
crucial but I do it anyway
let's go back to file then print and
from the drop-down box for the printers
we want to click on the one we just
installed called solid pdfcreator
and all of this should be pretty much
okay to believe it as it is and now
we're gonna click on print and I'm going
to put one here and call it unlocked and
then click on create and then click OK I
can move this out to the side now I've
quite a large file here I think it's
about 205 or 208 pages so it takes a
little while for a large file like that
and I think it's because my documents
not just text but there's a lot of
images inside of their document too so
I'm just going to pause that so we have
to sit here be bored
okay it's finally finished so once it's
finished it actually opens up the file
in its own new window so we can see here
unlocked so what we need to do now is
change our clock back so go back down to
the clock right click get our just date
and time and then we'll left-click on
set time automatically so come back to
today's date now we can close this
window even close the original one as
well not gonna save that no close and
only need to go to the folder so just to
see how it works
well double click on the original one
now that our time has been changed again
so this original one with the green
screen let's close that and this is the
new one so double click on that and
there we go there's our file and we can
use it however you like now and this is
even with the date change back to
today's date
