If they can show that you&#x27;ve been using the password regularly, recently, for a while, then not believing a claim to have forgotten seems, if not <i>necessarily</i> correct, at least not absurd.<p>If they can&#x27;t show that, and the file might not have been accessed since it was created years ago, then I think it&#x27;s unquestionably wrong to ignore the fallibility of human memory.