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How to open password protected pdf without password mac code#

This little gem (Use double-quotes if you still want variables inside to be expanded and single-quotes if you want it to be taken literally) tucked away deep inside the Noodlesoft Forums came to my rescue! Qpdf: unknown argument /Users/me/Desktop/Transfer/remove encryption/some.pdfĮDIT: To answer my own question, after many hours digging around I finally got it to work with qpdf -decrypt -password=some_password "$1" '/Users/me/Desktop/Transfer/remove encryption' Qpdf: unknown argument /Users/me/Desktop/Transfer/remove As of now I see the following error message in the Hazel logs: The script works as is if I change the name of the folder from remove encryption to remove but I would like this script, and future ones, to work when there is a space in the folder/file name.

Qpdf -decrypt -password=some_password $1 /Users/me/Desktop/Transfer/remove\ encryptionĪnd variations on these with " "s and $s. Qpdf -decrypt -password=some_password $1 /Users/me/Desktop/Transfer/remove encryption

I’m new to scripting and am tearing my hair out after an unsuccessful hour-long search over what must be a super simple and obvious situation. It works if there is no space in the folder name though. I’m trying to get this to work and it does in Terminal using qpdf but for some reason I just can’t get Hazel to play nice with it as the script gets thrown off because of a space in the folder name. I used the same Hazel rule to move the file to the trash after I ran the shell script (this trashed the original encrypted file, leaving the new decrypted file as the sole file left in the folder).

After this, there will be 2 files in the folder, the original and the decrypted file.

Replace “OutputName” with whatever you want the file to be called (I recommend using something different than the input name).

How to open password protected pdf without password mac code#

Replace “InputName” to what the file is called (you can use Hazel to rename it prior to this if he file name is different every time, this way the code doesn’t have to change every time).

Replace “some_password” with the password for the PDF encryption.

Qpdf –decrypt –password=some_password InputName.pdf OutputName.pdf In the script area inside the hazel rule, type the following into the text box:

After that, create a hazel rule to monitor for the file you need to decrypt, then use hazel to trigger a shell script.

Then after Homebrew is installed, type the following in terminal:.

Basically, I installed Homebrew by typing the following into terminal:.

So I got an answer to this on the Automater’s Discourse Page link to exact post