I have been using brave for months now and had no problems until Windows 11 for my system rolled out. I choose to update keeping nothing as it ensures optimal installation. But lost my brave app. I had many important bookmarks and details on that sync. Pls help me, I can provide any details you wa…

Thanks for the idea mate I was able to recover my account. For Those who are in the same situation: Step1. Go to C:\Windows.old\Users\Username Step2. In the view option in toolbar select option to see hidden items under show menu. Appdata folder will appear. Step3. Go to C:\Windows.old\Users\Use…

There’s nothing the can be done, especially since you told it to keep nothing. If you had a backup of your system’s /brave folder you may have been able to recover from that, but you’re making it sound like that didn’t happen. Assuming you don’t have any other devices on the sync chain and you don’…

Then that will have all of your stuff. You should be able to access it, find your Brave folder, and bring it over to your fresh Windows upgrade. I mean, it’s that simple. Hopefully you find it and can manage with no issues.

Btw, if struggling to know where they might be or whatever, this post/comment might help. [image] I had to re-install Brave, now a bookmark folder has lost its contents @wayan You said, ‘a bookmarks folder’ . . . not ‘the bookmarks folder’. If one or more Bookmarks sub…

Man but I still not having my passwords. All bookmarks and history is there but no passwords. What hapended here?

Well, not sure. I can tell you the official answers have been as you see below: [image] Restoring Password from Saved Profile Folder Desktop Support Restoring the entire C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default would be the safest optio…

Pls post another method. I tried clean installing brave and than pasting old user data. Still everything worked except passwords. I have the login file that contains the paswords in encrypted form but brave is unable to read it.

@AdityaRSingh Paths I usually state in a Reply-Post. . . Linux OS: $HOME/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/ Mac OS: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/ Windows OS: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\ – I much prefer to recom…

Brave sync needs to add email pairing option by default so even if the sync code is lost, if the email address has been paired for a profile, we can request sync code, so that brave sends the sync code to the paired email address

Lost my Sync code after updating windows

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Saoiray July 9, 2022, 4:52am 10

@AdityaRSingh we may have to wait for those who I tagged to come and offer advice. That said, I was able to search through old Topics and came across this one possible solution from CerealLover.

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