If you don’t need any security for the passwords, you can leave all checkboxes unticked and your passwords will always be visible. 5 Configure when BetterZip should automatically lock the vault for you.If you use this command, the vault will be deleted, all password manager settings including the master password will be reset, and and all passwords will be lost. Finally, the menu has a command to reset the password manager in case you forgot your master password. In this editor you can modify your passwords conveniently, paste from an external list, or copy to store them externally, e.g., as a secure note in another password manager.

Edit passwords as text opens a text editor sheet with all your passwords, one per line. The gear button has a menu with additional actions: Remove all passwords clears the password cache. Click the - button or press ⌫ to remove the currently selected password.

4 Click the + button or press ⌘N to add a new password.

2 Check this option to automatically add all correctly entered passwords to the password manager.

Always try passwords, including RAR archives (see above why this may not be a good choice).

For zip and 7-zip archives password correctness can be determined immediately. You don’t want to try 20 passwords on a 10 GB archive. RAR is excluded in this option, because with this format it may be necessary to extract the whole archive before it can be determined whether the password is correct or not. Only when the archive cannot be unlocked with any of your passwords, you will be asked to enter it manually.

Automatically try passwords, except for RAR archives: Every time you open a protected archive, BetterZip will try your passwords to automatically unlock the archive.

Of course, the password manager must first be unlocked with your master password.

Don’t try passwords automatically, but use in password panel: The password manager offers a list of all your passwords in password panels, so you can choose from them instead of entering manually.

1 Choose what the password manager should do:.

Removing password from zip file