Posts made by nilands55s

Ok I have been working on this for months across 4 Linux boxes and this is what I have discovered. It has something to do with sync corrupting .config/opera/Preferences file. Seams if you select to sync the passwords the Preferences file changes the hash for passwords to a sync file and gets stuck or corrupted, I have not figured exactly what is going wrong yet. I have managed to get my passwords back from a backup.
Sooo

1. make sure on fresh boot that opera is not opened at all or this won't work
2. Delete or rename the entire opera folder in .config (a hidden folder)
3. Assuming you have a recent backup restore this folder from the backup

What I know so far is in the preferences file the password field changes from a 16 digit number and becomes changed to ,"PASSWORD":"SyncEngineImpl" in any password field. From this point forward you can't see your passwords or manage them. The way I am getting around this is keeping a backup of the .config/opera folder and not syncing passwords. Also with the 4 boxes having different versions of 60' something version it effects all of them. I am trying to sort through some old backups and it seems this function last worked with Linux version 52 something. I tried just replacing the Preferences file but this did not work as it is not in sync with the rest of the files in that folder.
One would think the developers would have consider a backup of the directory before a sync process, but no, so do it manually. A easy way is to just copy to a different directory as trying to create a compressed folder seem not to work.
I wonder if they knew they had a problem because sync passwords is not selected by default on first sync. Since Opera has become a chrome one off I am looking into "chrome-pass" just to see what I can help, but the install for this is not well structured. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-pass-zx2c4/oblajhnjmknenodebpekmkliopipoolo?hl=en
Nilands55s

I was trying to comment to "[Solved]Opera keeps crashing 3-4 times in a row", but it was closed and not the best solve. Now my system is Linux but I sure the problem is similar. in the referenced topic they deleted the entire /.config/opera folder, but I discovered it actually one one file in the /opera folder "Preferences" had become corrupted by the sync function. Luck for me I had made a backup of the entire configuration folder and was able to replace with a yet larger then current, but close to original file by about 400kb in comparison to the original 341kb file.
The problem with not having a backup is you will loose most everything and be starting over with hours trying to get close to what you had. In windows if I remember the equivalent would be in a folder "AppData" somewhere in the user folder. You will have to change folder options to see this as they are hidden. Always pays to have traditional backups especially for windows because there system restore often dose not give what you need or want and is a real POS anyway. Of my 4 PC's only the laptop has Win7 to run only two programs and is backed up to one of my Linux machines.

I found the problem by making a copy of the effected folder and coping back a few files at a time, until the problem came back. It is Important to close the browser each time you copy of the new folder or the will not stick and be over written. As an example the new Preferences file will be about 40Kb and stay that way on closing the browser. Do not copy any .LOCK files as this will impede your efforts. I was able to keep all my Chrome extension files this way and only had to make minor corrections to my extensions and preferences. Real happy my speed dial only needed minor updates (deletions) as I had even more from the backup. I also discover this may lead to another problem I have with password not being visible as they were before the use of the backup "Preferences" file. Now that I know where to look and have a clue that is may be a password sync problem maybe I can figure out why. Reasone is I had not ticked sync passwords before everything went FUBAR.
nilands55s

So on another linux box with the same Ubutnu-gnome 14.04.5 I devloped a problem when I tried to link into sync and the short answer is the /.config/opera/Preferences got ruined. Seams what happens is the password sections of this file are replaced with a link to the sync and for a reason I have not discovered yet syncing the passwords does not work well. The difference seams to be text in that file similar to [,"Passwords":"a 16 digit number"] and during The beginning of the sync opera started to open and crashes about 3 times before final failure, see (/topic/40327/opera-crashes-1-minute-after-being-opened). The password reference gets changed to ,"PASSWORD":"SyncEngineImpl" in any password field. The file is impossible to work with in Gedit so I used my Geany IDE as it is a very long single line with no line breaks. I did study some programming but discovered I did not like it very much, so I can't claim to be a programmer, but it is my hope someone with skills might figure this out, as I have tried to open tickets about this with mo response from the Opera crew for months now. My guess is the sixteen digit number is a hash as I can't find a file that matches the number on on my 4 different Ubuntu boxes the number is different on each one. I have not bothered with my one win7 partition as windows angers me with the slow loading and Click and wait crap. Also they are different progressive versions and the problem continues, if I use the password sync, as I had a version I could see the passwords unit I tried to sync them. Don't sync the password, but export them!!!
Nilands55s

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So on another linux box with the same Ubutnu-gnome 14.04.5 I devloped a problem when I tried to link into sync and the short answer is the /.config/opera/Preferences got ruined. Seam what happens is the password sections of this file are replaced with a link to the sync and for a reason I have not discovered yet syncing the passwords does not work well. The difference seams to be text in that file similar to [,"Passwords":"a 16 digit number"] and during The beginning of the sync opera started to open and crash about 3 times before final failure, see (/topic/40327/opera-crashes-1-minute-after-being-opened). The password reference gets changed to ,"PASSWORD":"SyncEngineImpl" in any password field. The file is impossible to work with in Gedit so I used my Geany IDE as it is a very long single line with no line breaks. I did study some programming but discovered I did not like it very much, so I can't claim to be a programmer, but it is my hope someone with skills might figure this out, as I have tried to open tickets about this with mo response from the Opera crew for months now. My guess is the sixteen digit number is a hash as I can't find a file that matches the number on on my 4 different Ubuntu boxes the number is different on each one. I have not bothered with my one win7 partition as windows angers me with the slow loading and Click and wait crap. Also they are different progressive versions and the problem continues, if I use the password sync, as I had a version I could see the passwords unit I tried to sync them. Don't sync the password, but export them!!!
Nilands55s

I was trying to comment to "[Solved]Opera keeps crashing 3-4 times in a row", but it was closed and not the best solve. Now my system is Linux but I sure the problem is similar. in the referenced topic they deleted the entire /.config/opera folder, but I discovered it actually one one file in the /opera folder "Preferences" had become corrupted by the sync function. Luck for me I had made a backup of the entire configuration folder and was able to replace with a yet larger then current, but close to original file by about 400kb in comparison to the original 341kb file.
The problem with not having a backup is you will loose most everything and be starting over with hours trying to get close to what you had. In windows if I remember the equivalent would be in a folder "AppData" somewhere in the user folder. You will have to change folder options to see this as they are hidden. Always pays to have traditional backups especially for windows because there system restore often dose not give what you need or want and is a real POS anyway. Of my 4 PC's only the laptop has Win7 to run only two programs and is backed up to one of my Linux machines.

I found the problem by making a copy of the effected folder and coping back a few files at a time, until the problem came back. It is Important to close the browser each time you copy of the new folder or the will not stick and be over written. As an example the new Preferences file will be about 40Kb and stay that way on closing the browser. Do not copy any .LOCK files as this will impede your efforts.
nilands55s

Finding it hard to find help for Linux version of opera (63.0.3368.66)
I sure many use some Micro Soft junk, but in our household we have removed any version of this insecure OS.
As of the last update I cannot search for passwords in settings, all I get is "Saved passwords will appear here"?
The wand.dat has not been used since January of 2019
Also seems mostly only very old passwords seem to work and my newer passwords are not filled in all the time.
Not sure of the exact file structure as there is: /.opera and /.config/opera. The later seems to have the latest Modified dates listed.
I as considering "Opera Password Decryptor
Version: 6.0", but it seems to be windoze only download!
I am not in the mood to keep being used a a beta tester any more, as I am Old and cranky
Sooo how do I get them working again?

Well "C:\Users\Your Name\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" only works for the stinking windows junk. I use something much more secure and never crashes, Ubuntu- Linux and I don't need no stink'n virus scanner slowing down every Internet connection. So I am looking for the equivalence directory for Opera 41.0 for Linux.
Tried ~/.config/opera/Extensions/killkgpjebkgoibonbcjalcmlakflaha/1.6.2_0/css/ext.css, but it wants to change back to the original saying the file is corrupt?