I got on my pc today and went to multiple websites I’ve used before and had to log back in on them before I noticed that I didn’t have the option to autofill any passwords. I looked in my password manager and saw every single password was gone. I’ve checked a couple similar forms and nothing that has been given as a solution has worked for me or made any sense.
Windows 11, version 24H2
About Brave v 1.80.115
@Snowy there’s no real easy guide or answer. There’s a bunch of things that could have gone wrong. Everything from you accidentally deleting, you changing your OS password, some corruption in an OS or browser update, or whatever else.
Not sure if you’ve seen, but the primary help article is https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/29808985123085-Sensitive-data-storage
To be fair, often is nice to give examples or a list of what’s tried. The challenge here is as someone who might try to walk you through on things to check, I either have to assume you really didn’t try something or I’d have to assume you did everything and nothing works…thus you can’t be helped. Either assumption or mix thereof isn’t that good.
Also perhaps information like if you look in your folders, are the passwords still there? What I’m referencing is such as "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Login Data" If you navigate to that path on Windows and see it, then open it Notepad you can see a list of sites but all the passwords would be jumbled as it’s encrypted. But if it’s there, then at least gives a bit more of a clue.
If it’s there and seems to have all the saved sites, then it’s like in the link provided earlier, it seems something changed where you lost the encryption key. And usually there’s not much to do except to restore to an earlier point or something. But there’s something with the OS keychain.
Oh, and when you say this, what do you mean?
Yes I am also facing these problems
Good advice to check the Login Data file, just a heads up don’t be surprised if it looks a little corrupt, it’s not in a text format, but rather SQLite.
Sorry for the late response since i was away. When I said I checked similar forums these we’re the ones I was talking about: Brave removed ALL my saved passwords - #12 by bradb and All my password data was deleted during update - #11 by Mattches . I will say I didn’t put to much effort when I tried them but since I didn’t understand what the forums were saying for answers so I didn’t know how to work the app I tried to use or had trouble with what they were saying to find in files, but I did manage to follow along with a few answers. I’ve gone to my files and the Login Data was there and I was able to open it but I couldn’t find many passwords. There was an app that I saw someone said to download but I couldn’t figure it out. I tried to see if my phone had a sync to my pc or something latest but my phone didn’t. I tried to see if my pc (which is the reason of issue) had anything to sync to but nothing with the sync was actually setup and I don’t have another device with brave.
I think that was the app I downloaded but I couldn’t figure it out
How to use DB Browser for SQLite, for viewing ‘Login Data’:
Add a filename extension to Login Data making either:
Login Data.dbLogin Data.sqliteOpen the file, using DB Browser for SQLite.
From ‘https://carpentry.library.ucsb.edu/2021-11-04-ucsb-sql-online/03a-DB-browser/index.html’
SELECT TABLE
BROWSE DATA / BROWSE TABLE
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