I've been trying to implement an action in the Action Wizard to batch remove the security on multiple PDFs. I came across this post and have been trying to implement the steps it describes:
http://answers.acrobatusers.com/ViewQuestion.aspx?questionid=16649
The action I've set up loads the files and saves them to a new location, but the password protection is still there when I open the new files. The Encrypt step seems to be doing nothing at all. I'm running Acrobat XI on a free trial at the moment, so I don't know if something changed in XI where this technique no longer works or if it's a limitation of the free trial. My action steps look like this:
