what is this passphrase, where does it come from?
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aldoween last edited by leocg
Hello everyone. I moved the Opera to another disc. I've synced with my account. Opera has displayed a page with the number of tabs-bookmarks that were on my previous Opera and which I can restore to the new one by entering passphrase. And what is this passphrase, where does it come from? I don't remember her. I didn't see any buttons on the page to restore this passphrase to my email as the same password. But I saw the reset button, thinking that I would throw this passphrase with this button. But this cockpit only cleared my profile by deleting all my bookmarks.... This is something very strange in terms of functionality. Can I cancel this reset?
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CarterOnline last edited by
The passphrase is a separate encryption key used for Opera Sync, not your regular password, and Opera doesn’t store it, so it can’t be recovered. Once you clicked the reset button, the synced data on the server was permanently cleared, which is why your bookmarks disappeared. The only way to get them back is if you still have a copy of your old Opera profile folder.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aldoween said in what is this passphrase, where does it come from?:
And what is this passphrase, where does it come from?
When you first set up sync, on the
opera://settings/syncSetupSync Setup page where you decide to turn on what things to sync, you have an option (off by default) to enter a custom passphrase (separate password different than your Opera account password) to encrypt your Sync data on the server. If you set that up (again, off by default) , when enabling Sync in any other Opera, you'll need to enter that custom password for Opera to be able to decrypt your synced data that's on the Sync server from the other Opera. If you don't remember enabling a custom passphrase or don't remember the custom passphrase, you're out of luck. Then, to use Opera Sync, you'll have to goto https://www.sync.opera.com/ and choose "reset your passphrase"."Reset your passphrase" doesn't mean what you think it means though. It really means "Wipe out all my Sync data on the Sync server and start fresh with just using my Opera account username and password instead of the custom password that I set before". It's not an option to send you an email to reset your custom passphrase. That wouldn't work anyway as Opera needs the old passphrase to decrypt the data encrypted with it. So, they only option is to wipe out your data and start over.
