Opera password import not showing up
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hotdogman10 last edited by
So i know a minimum of a year ago when you downloaded a new version of opera then logged in you could go to synchronisation then import and select opera as an option and it would import all your passwords and such from the last time you had opera. This was extremely useful to me because i frequently reset my pc and all i would have to do is install opera and all my passwords would be there. So i reset my pc last night but when it came to importing my passwords and such there was no option for opera. I don't know what to do because all my passwords were stored there and i have no idea what most of my passwords were or even what email addresses i used for different sites. So yeah i'm kind of freaking out since i have pretty much just lost all my passwords. Is there any way i could get them back?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@hotdogman10 I don't remember such option has ever existed. As far as I can remember, the option has always been to import data from other browsers, for when you are first installing Opera.
An option to import from Opera could have make sense about a decade ago when Opera changed to Chromium and people may want to import from Opera Presto, but not nowadays.What version of Opera do you have stored? Do you have your passwords exported to a CSV file?
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hotdogman10 last edited by
@leocg Hi about a month ago I reset my pc and re installed opera and where it said edge and such there was an option the said something along the lines of opera15 or something like that and I would import it and it would be all my passwords and stuff but I reset my pc last night and that option was no longer there. I don’t have my details saved on a cvs file and I don’t know what you mean by what version i have stored but I currently have the latest version installed.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
At the URL
opera://settings/importDatain Opera GX (not regular Opera), there's an Opera 15+ import option for importing from the regular Opera that's installed on the system. The import option is not sync-related. It just imports from regular Opera's profile folder. -
hotdogman10 last edited by hotdogman10
@burnout426 Sorry i forgot to clarify i was using opera gx but used that option and it worked quite a few times before. I have never had the original opera but when ever i would select that option it would import all my logins and such from the opera before i reset my pc. Is there any way for my to get my logins back ?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@hotdogman10 I don't see how that option could have worked like you said it did. The old profile before you reset your PC wouldn't be available to import from after the PC was reset.
Now, using Opera Sync, on the other hand, could work if all of your stuff was properly synced before you reset your PC. If that didn't happen correctly and your data is not at https://www.sync.opera.com/, you're out of luck.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
You click the profile icon on the right side of the address bar, click "Sign in" and sign in. Then, when you get redirected back to https://auth.opera.com/account/edit-profile, click the "Show me" button for "View your synchronized data", which will take you to the URL
opera://settings/syncSetupwhere you then turn on "Sync everything" and close that tab to start syncing. If you used a custom passphrase before, you'll want to enable that option under "Encryption options" on that page first. -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@hotdogman10 You can check your Opera version in opera://about.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@hotdogman10 Just for curiosity, why do you need to reset your system so often?
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hotdogman10 last edited by
@leocg Thanks for the help but someone above helped me sort it as for the reason i reset my pc quite often it's kind of embarrassing but it's a habit i picked up when i had a shitty computer that would constantly crash but whenever i reset it it would be fine for about 2 months or so. Now it's more of a paranoia thing the reason i reset it this time is because i got a windows defender alert about a trojan and sure it said it stopped it but i just couldn't get it out of my head so i decided to just reset it. Thanks again for the help.
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hotdogman10 last edited by
@burnout426 Thank you so much i was worried quite a bit but turns out all i had to do was click sync everything then click the x and not just click sync everything then click sync nothing again because i thought it wasn't working. Thanks again for the help.
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