PD Series - Exporting Conventional Channel Data

[Sputnik1]

Hello All

has anyone come across this ..........

in the CPS when exporting conventional channel data to an Excel file, the file itself becomes ' Protected '
so as not to allow any alteration of the channel plan itself.

The protecting Password is NOT the same as the read protect password of the radio

so.........

Has anyone seen this before and does anyone know what the default password is......

and just out of interest when exporting conventional contacts the above does NOT happen and editing can
take place before reinserting

any guidance gratefully accepted

 

[bharvey2]

Excel sheet and data protection isn't particularly secure. There are a number of password recovery programs in the wild that will recover it for you. Try a Google search and be sure to run an AV and Malware check on anything you download before using it.

 

[Sputnik1]

Thanks on that

as suggested I let my fingers do the Gooooogling and found some interesting stuff and tried it

In so doing I have managed to crack it - cheers

Excel files now have passwords removed and now I am able to doctor the channel plan much more easily

all the best and thanks again

regards

Sputnik

 

[bharvey2]

Glad you found a solution. Out of curiosity, what CPS program are you using? (for which radio) Having a number of radios, I've done a fair share of exporting to *.CSV files but have never run into the locked file issue. Which brings me to another question: Are you constrained to export to a particular file type?

 

[Sputnik1]

Hello using CPS 9.00 - for PD705 U1

the channel and contact lists export to *.xls at which point the channel data is protected but the contact lists are not.
so if I need to do edit a massive lists of contacts not a problem but doctoring a large channel plan is problematic and
would otherwise need doing line by line in the cps.

Sorry didnt even think to try other file types.....

thanks again

Sputnik