Lost Passwords

[bayvista]

I lost all my passwords from my desktop when upgrading to Mint 22.1. However my Mobile seems OK. Is there any way I can transfer passwords from my Mobile to the desktop?

 

[KGIII]

Is there any way I can transfer passwords from my Mobile to the desktop?

Not that I'm 100% sure of.

Let's start with a question or two:

How were your passwords stored prior to the upgrade?

Do you have a backup? If so, you could probably restore the backup and save your passwords before doing the upgrade again.

As this is Mint, you may have TimeShift available and may have TimeShift backups from before you upgraded.

 

[Condobloke]

What brand mobile do you have....iPhone or Android ?

Do you have email on your phone?

 

[bayvista]

Not that I'm 100% sure of.

Let's start with a question or two:

How were your passwords stored prior to the upgrade?

Do you have a backup? If so, you could probably restore the backup and save your passwords before doing the upgrade again.

As this is Mint, you may have TimeShift available and may have TimeShift backups from before you upgraded.

Thanks for the reply. I used Google Chrome Password Manager. Yes I used Timeshift and will explore to see if there is anything there. I created a new version of LM on another disk so the old version must be around somewhere. Thanks,

 

[theLegionWithin]

Thanks for the reply. I used Google Chrome Password Manager.

why not just sign into Chrome (on the computer) with whatever account you use on your mobile device, let it import your data (bookmarks, password, etc), export the data, then sign out of that account? then you could import that data or just access it via a text/csv file, etc.

I use chrome myself and that's one of the things I used to make my transition to linux easier a few months ago. lots of folks dislike google's software, but the software's just a tool. my setup is such where each device I have has it's own gmail account, though they typically share the same dataset (passwords, bookmarks) in case one device ends up abruptly dying.

or, there's other management options --> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop

 

[bayvista]

What brand mobile do you have....iPhone or Android ?

Do you have email on your phone?

Android - Samsung. Yes I have Gmail on my phone and it is working fine

 

[bayvista]

why not just sign into Chrome (on the computer) with whatever account you use on your mobile device, let it import your data (bookmarks, password, etc), export the data, then sign out of that account? then you could import that data or just access it via a text/csv file, etc.

I use chrome myself and that's one of the things I used to make my transition to linux easier a few months ago. lots of folks dislike google's software, but the software's just a tool. my setup is such where each device I have has it's own gmail account, though they typically share the same dataset (passwords, bookmarks) in case one device ends up abruptly dying.

or, there's other management options --> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop

I can't sign into Chrome as I have lost my password.

 

[Condobloke]

Copy and paste your passwords onto an email form and email it to yourself.
If there are a lot, copy and paste them into a folder and email the folder

You may need to email them as a .zip file....that compresses them so they don't take uo so much room and upset google

A ton of passwords dont take up much space, so pasted to an email form might do it

Will this work for you ?

 

[KGIII]

I used Google Chrome Password Manager.

If you were using a Google account and signed into sync, your passwords are usually set to sync and should appear.

You can also restore from backup, back to the previous version, and then export the passwords from the password manager. Just open the password manager and pick the bottom link on the left.

 

[bayvista]

I can't sign into Chrome as I have lost my password.

Solved - Lost Passwords

 

[Condobloke]

How did you end up doing it ...care to share?

Do this by scrolling up to the top of the page and selecting the drop down, and open the small window headed More options.....
Click on Edit Thread, ...and click on (no prefix) ....and then Solved

 

[bayvista]

How did you end up doing it ...care to share?

Do this by scrolling up to the top of the page and selecting the drop down, and open the small window headed More options.....
Click on Edit Thread, ...and click on (no prefix) ....and then Solved

I contacted Google and they fixed it up. I now have a new password for my gmail

 

[Condobloke]

omg...google to the rescue !...we don't often hear of that happening

 

[bayvista]

omg...google to the rescue !...we don't often hear of that happening

Agreed. It was a stupid mistake, but we live and learn!

 

[Condobloke]

I truly meant that...actual help from google is a rare commodity. Usually they are perceived as being too busy raking in a sqillion dollars an hour to be bothered with helping someone.

Well done for putting them to the test !

 

[Condobloke]

And/.....the mistake was not stupid, and certainly not just confined to you.......I managed to lose contact with the over 250 passwords I have stored in Bitwarden.
They have an incredibly good support team, who had me back up and running in no time. (Thank God )

Onward !