Recover lost passwords from backup
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akira-kazama last edited by
Hello.
I have reinstalled my system (Linux Mint 17 64-bit) and I have restored all my settings from the .config folder but my stored passwords are gone.
How can I restore my lost passwords?
I still have a full backup of my old Home folder but I'm not sure which files I need to copy to the new Home folder to recover the stored passwords.
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akira-kazama last edited by
Thanks for the answer but I have that file in my Opera folder already and my passwords are still lost:
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Have I lost my passwords permanently?
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
It is encrypted. In Windows it is encrypted to the user account, which means if you reformat and do a fresh install it is no longer accessible. (Not the username, so that you can't just create an account with the same name on some other machine to read it.) I haven't heard what they do on Linux but would guess it was similar. If so, the file is now unrecoverable.
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Deleted User last edited by
You need:
- ~/.config/opera-beta/
- ~/.local/share/keyrings/
The opera password database is
Login\ DataandLogin\ Data-journaland may be you use a GNOME keyring oder KDE wallet? -
akira-kazama last edited by
Solved, thanks.
I had to copy the Opera keyring file from ~/.local/share/keyrings to my new Home folder.
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Deleted User last edited by
If someone has kwallet as keymanager, restore:
~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/*~/.kde/share/config/kwallet*
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A Former User last edited by
I was having password problems today, one particular password, current Opera version, and the Synchronisation tool fixed it. It's under Settings > Basic. It's useful for keeping stuff matched between different machines, and one reason I keep using Opera despite the problems there can be with video codecs.
I know this is an old thread, but it keeps popping up on search engines. This answer works in August 2018, v55.0 under Linux.
