@aldoween said in what is this passphrase, where does it come from?:
And what is this passphrase, where does it come from?
When you first set up sync, on the opera://settings/syncSetup Sync Setup page where you decide to turn on what things to sync, you have an option (off by default) to enter a custom passphrase (separate password different than your Opera account password) to encrypt your Sync data on the server. If you set that up (again, off by default) , when enabling Sync in any other Opera, you'll need to enter that custom password for Opera to be able to decrypt your synced data that's on the Sync server from the other Opera. If you don't remember enabling a custom passphrase or don't remember the custom passphrase, you're out of luck. Then, to use Opera Sync, you'll have to goto https://www.sync.opera.com/ and choose "reset your passphrase".
"Reset your passphrase" doesn't mean what you think it means though. It really means "Wipe out all my Sync data on the Sync server and start fresh with just using my Opera account username and password instead of the custom password that I set before". It's not an option to send you an email to reset your custom passphrase. That wouldn't work anyway as Opera needs the old passphrase to decrypt the data encrypted with it. So, they only option is to wipe out your data and start over.
