Password recovery
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MonkeyMen last edited by
I recently got a new windows 11, sadly I did not sync my passowords on the old system, but I got my acces to its files, is there a way for me to extract the encrypted file to move my passwords over, or is it lost forever
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Nearmelab last edited by
️ The Opera help portal says:Login Data Your saved, encrypted passwords, readable only on the machine that created them -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
You really need to be running that old Windows user account to be able to decrypt the password file.
If you can't do that, you'll need:
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The old "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable\Local State" file.
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The old "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX STable\Default\Login Data" file.
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The old "C:\Users\yourusername" folder so that the "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect\id_here" folder is present.
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The password for that old user account.
If you have all that, in ChromePass (download link way down the page), you can goto "File -> Advanced options" and set it to load passwords from another Windows user where you point it to the old user folder and enter the old user account password. Then, it might work. If not, you can explicitly set the folder the old "Login Data" file is in, the path to the "Protect" folder and explicitly set the path the old "Local State" file. Then, you might get lucky if the old account was a local account not tied to a Microsoft account.
I wouldn't get your hopes up though.
Note that Windows Defender will flag ChromePass as a potentially-unwanted program and remove it on you, so you'll have to go into the Windows Security settings and disable real-time protection before you download the zip file and extract it with the password provided below the download link.
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