Passwords not saved

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

HI,
I wanted to change from Chrome to Opera and I like most of the features. But no matter what I try I cannot get Opera to save my entered Passwords.
Some advice?
Thank you.
Heinz

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

What version of Opera and what OS?

Opera asks you if you want to save your passwords?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thank you!

Version:58.0.3135.90
Windows 8.1
Opera never asks.!

Settings:

Heinz

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

Try deleting Login Data in Opera's profile folder.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

There is no folder Login Data!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

But there should be a file, like I said.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I found the file and deleted it. Logged in to a site: no prompt. Password was not saved.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

Did you try a settings reset?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I did not. I would loose all importing personal settings. D you think I should?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

Do a backup before then.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Just to test with a separate Opera profile without interfering with your existing Opera profile, download the Opera installer, launch it, click "options", set "install path" to a folder on you desktop, set "install for" to "standalone installation", uncheck "import data from default browser" and install. Don't enable Opera Sync in this test Opera.

Does saving of passwords at least work fine there?

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426
Thank you for your instructions, which I followed. In the new installation I have the same problem: no prompt, password not saved:
Any other Ideas?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg
How can I make a full backup?

[donq]

donq last edited by

Does your windows account have any password set?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

Like you do any backup, you copy the contents of the folder to another place.

[A Former User]

A Former User @donq last edited by

@donq
Yes

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by burnout426

@heinzw said in Passwords not saved:

@burnout426
Thank you for your instructions, which I followed. In the new installation I have the same problem: no prompt, password not saved:
Any other Ideas?

In Opera, goto the URL chrome://flags/#enable-autofill-ignore-autocomplete-off and set the flag to "Enabled". Then, try again.

What sites have you tested with? I assume you logged in on here and Opera never asked you to save?

Other things to try (in that standalone installation for now) would be to goto the URL opera://settings/system, disable hardware acceleration, restart Opera and then try again.

What security software do you have installed? Do you ahve Bitdefender and or Sandboxie? Have yo utried temporarily disabling anti-virus and such?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thank you for your ideas and help. I tried the first URL but nothing changed.
I have Malwarebytes installed.

I think I am giving up. I tried Firefox and the saving of the credentials works fine. I will try Firefox.

Again thank you very much.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

User at https://forums.opera.com/topic/36957/opera-dont-save-passords-win10-solution-12-2019 said that if you network connection on Windows is set to "public" instead of "private", you could have this issue.