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Is there a way to recover a password on a Form workspace?

  • July 16, 2026
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sarahjanem32
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Good afternoon all, 

Rather embarrassing first post but after many years of workspace creation I seem to have locked myself out of my own work. 
A few weeks ago I had added a workspace parameter password to a locally stored workspace, wrote down said password and now that I have come back to this work, it doesn’t appear to like the password I saved off. 

Is it possible to recover this access or is it a goner that I will need to rebuild? 

 

Many thanks, 

Sarah Jane 

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j.botterill
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  • July 17, 2026

No, FME does not provide a password recovery mechanism.

FME intentionally encrypts password-type parameter values rather than storing them in plain text

Check for older copies of the workspace? Sharepoint/Onedrive version history


donalmateer
Safer
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Hi ​@sarahjanem32,

Thanks for reaching out. Don't worry, you're not the first person to get caught out by this!

Could you please submit a support case through our support portal? We should be able to help recover access to the workspace rather than having you rebuild it from scratch.

When you submit the case, please attach the workspace (.fmw) if possible, along with the version of FME you're using. That will help us investigate more quickly.

Once we have the workspace, we'll take a look and see what we can recover.