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First, you weep.

You will be the only person who knows your password. If you forget it, neither you nor the software publisher can open the application. So you'll have to start all over and enter every single password again.

However, you got this kind of software because you can't remember all your passwords and didn't want to leave a document laying around that someone else could access.

Now, there's a pickle. You need to re-enter all your passwords but you can't.

I took the approach of creating a Master Password that is very unlikely to be guessed but which is easy for me to remember. I also have it stored in a couple of places - my daughters' heads. They have it because, if anything ever happened to my wife and me simultaneously, they'd need access to my passwords.