How to recover saved passwords after have changed Windows password?

Inferno1679

Inferno1679

Hello, i reset my windows password and all my passwords disappeared. i have the Login Data file, and the old windows password, is there any way i can decrypt the passwords so i can get them all back ?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

You could change your Windows password back for a few minutes, log out, log back in, open Opera and goto the URL opera://settings/passwords to see if they now show. If they do, you can click the 3 dots to the right of "saved passwords" and export them to a csv file. Then, you can change your Windows password back to what you want, log out and in, delete the Login Data file while Opera is closed, open Opera, goto the URL opera://flags/#password-import, enable the import flag, restart Opera, goto the URL opera://settings/passwords, click the 3 dots to the right of "saved passwords", and import the csv file. Then, all you'd have to do is double-check that Opera saves new passwords and you'll be good.

I would make a copy of your "Login Data" and "Local State" files first so you can always try things again with copies of the backups.

To do the above another way, after you change your Windows password back to what it was for a bit, log out, log in, make a standalone installation to a folder on your desktop, start it, close it, replace its "Login Data" and "Local State" files in its "profile/data" folder with copies of yours, start it, check to see if the passwords are there, export them, and import them into your regular Opera.

A different way to do things if you set your old Windows password again would be to run https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html. If conditions are right, you'll see all your passwords in it.

For other solutions, see https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+decrypt+login+data+with+old+password.

Note that I was goin to test some of those ways to see if any of them would work, but changing my user account password for Windows (multiple times) didn't cause me to lose my passwords.

Inferno1679

Inferno1679

@burnout426 i changed my password back a while ago but i still dont see the passwords. i tried the test user thing with the login data and local state files but they still dont show my passwords and i tried to decrypt the passwords but i couldnt

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @Inferno1679

@inferno1679 I think you might be out of luck.

maNgo-5

maNgo-5 @Inferno1679

@inferno1679 I am having the same issue! I have been online for over 30 years and I trusted Opera because they are one of the oldest players. But I am done with them! I cannot access any of my passwords and lot a lot of stuff because of this after a clean Windows install. I mean, it's 2023! I didn't have any issue with Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. I believed Opera had the capacity to save users from using pen and paper to write down passwords. I'm done...