Opera logged me out of my email.

Dada214

Dada214

Hi.
Two days ago, for some reason, the browser logged me out of an email for which I do not have a password. It was never a problem for me because I was just always logged in. I have an email from Google. Unfortunately for me, I didn't include a phone number or emergency email. This mail is quite important.

I hoped that I had saved the password in some text file. I have a lot of trash on my computer, so I used a program that finds the phrases without opening every txt, doc, rtf etc. (AstroGrep)

So, I didn't save this email in any file... but the program finds my email in %appdata%\Roaming\Opera software\Service\CacheStorage<Numbers>

My email also appears in the "History" located in the Opera folder a hell of a lot of times too. (almost 1000 times)

The oldest files found by the program in Opera are the date the email was created.
This is a new email, created especially for work.

It's bad because I have no idea how to recover the password. This email was logged in only on this computer. The IP address probably doesn't change either. The location is the same.

Is there anything I can do to help myself? I don't want to use applications that supposedly decrypt files, I don't trust them and I'm afraid of possible leaks. I have quite important information in my email and I don't want to leave it unattended. Honestly, I would be totally okay with it if I had the option to delete this email.

Thank very much for reading.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Dada214

@dada214 The most basic thing to do would be contacting Google or whatever is your email service.

Dada214

Dada214 @leocg

Thank you for your answer @leocg
Yeah, the email is from Google. I tried to contact them where I described the situation in detail, but my question was considered a duplicate and I was referred to another question in which the guy received an answer to check the password manager - Passwords.google.com. There is no password on this website in my case. I have an option to import and export only csv files. I don't know what these types of files are, where I have them or if I have them at all.

This sucks. In the browser history I have the titles of open e-mails from 3-4 days ago, but when I try to access them from the Opera panel - well, it's only a history record and I still get asked for a password . When I tell them that I don't remember it, they ask for my email address and password again. They don't ask me when the email was created or my date of birth or something like that... I use the same browser, the same computer, I don't understand why it's impossible for them to confirm that it's me.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Dada214

@dada214 Sorry to say, but the story is kinda suspicious. So you have an important email account and don't know it's password, never set up a backup email so you could get your data back, never saved the password in a password manager or something and now needs to access that account? At least strange.

Anyway, you can try exporting the CSV file from that passwords site to see if you find something there.

If you never saved your password in Opera's passwords manager, there's no way to recover it from Opera.

Dada214

Dada214 @leocg

@leocg Exactly as you said. I created email in November 2023. I used it for the first time in December. The email was logged in from the very beginning and I didn't have to log out of it, nor did I do that... I thought I had the password saved somewhere on my device, but I probably made a mistake here. For 3-4 months this account has not logged out even once.

This is an email with a password that I used only when registering and I never had to enter it again. (Because I was constantly logged in these few months and I could use it) So far. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to find the file where I saved it - If I saved it.

On the day the problem occurred, a Windows update window popped up when I started the computer. I asked because when I try to find a text file in which I could save this account, the program shows a lot of this email in the folder (Opera Stable)

I thought maybe it could be recovered. If not, well... I can only hope that in two years the email will be deleted by Google for inactivity.