[Solved]Old email shows up when filling fields

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

Up front: this probably isn't an Opera issue. However, I don't know where to ask this question.

When filling forms on websites and when I click in the e-mail field, the browsers shows two (very) old email addresses. I insert my current email address, no problem, but then again I wonder where these old email addresses are stored/coming from so I can remove them.
If at all possible that is.

I don't think it isn't on my system: I bought a new pc a few years back and these addresses were ever used, one 1 site only, that being before I bought my current pc.

Anyone has an idea?

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

If you want to check in Opera itself, the only place seems to be Settings > Autofill settings > Addresses or chrome://settings/addresses ...

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

If clearing the autofill data from the UI doesn't work, close down Opera and delete "Web Data" and "Web Data-journal" in the profile directory.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@sgunhouse said in Old email shows up when filling fields:

chrome://settings/addresses

Many thanks.
Frankly, I checked those already. In Opera there is nothing at all. In Chome just 1 entry, with the correct details.
Reason why I was/am puzzled why these 5 year old email addresses still show up.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Old email shows up when filling fields:

If clearing the autofill data from the UI doesn't work, close down Opera and delete "Web Data" and "Web Data-journal" in the profile directory.

I have been running CCleaner and numerous times and also clear data from within Opera.
The last time I used those addresses was 5 years ago. Since then I bought a new pc, formatted the drive x-times, did a clean Windows install, I don't know how many times, cleared cache and whatever there is that can be cleared.
So my best guess is that is on some server and one way or the other it is being synchronised or something.

As for web data en web data -journal: I wouldn't know where to look.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@mopw69 said in Old email shows up when filling fields:

As for web data en web data -journal: I wouldn't know where to look.

Goto the URL opera://about and look for the profile path.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Old email shows up when filling fields:

@mopw69 said in Old email shows up when filling fields:

As for web data en web data -journal: I wouldn't know where to look.

Goto the URL opera://about and look for the profile path.

I have never been in there to be honest. Can I do any damages to Opera settings, when clearing these 2 files?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@mopw69 Deleting those 2 files won't hurt anything. You can back them up first if you want though.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Another thing you can try just in case it works better than clearing autofill from the normal setting window, is to goto opera://settings/clearBrowserData, switch to "advanced", set range to "all time", uncheck everything but autofill and clear.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 I have exited Opera, deleted those files (first backup) and launched Opera. Now Web Data reduced from 254kb to 77kb.

I went on to that specific site where I encountered this 'issue' , entered the first, two, three character(s) of my email address.
Now does show the old email address anymore.
Hopefully... it is solved now.

Many thanks indeed.

BUT (there is always some kind 'but' or 'however'...)
I still wonder where Opera got this very old data from.

There is only 1/one place that I know of where this old email address has been stored: my password manager.
In fact, I just checked, the site involved does not exist anymore.

Anyway, thanks again.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@mopw69 Have you ever used the email on that site? Did you have it in another browser?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg Before I used Chrome, but no passwords have been saved in there.
As said, the user id and password were last used way back in 2013 and I bought a new pc in 2015, i.e. I started off with a clean system.

I removed the 'web data' (see above) and tried a few times.

The below, that I got before, is now gone, i.e. no drop down with 'suggestions' anymore.

BTW: passwords (Settings->Advanced->Autofill) are controlled by Roboform, but Roboform usually shows a pop-up with an option to either only Fill or Fill & Submit.
That wasn't the case here.

Anyway, whilst the puzzle as such isn't solved, the problem is...

Thanks.