Description of the issue: A few weeks ago I had an issue logging in to my Mac following an AD password reset. TechSupport fixed this, but in the process deleted my Keychain (or did something to it, at least). So I lost all my saved passwords in Brave. So be it. I guess these things happen. How…

I did a test with Chrome – I turned off Sync and then quit and restarted. All my passwords were still there. I then manually added a testing.test.com entry and quit and restart Chrome again. And that password was still present. (this same test doesn’t work in Brave) So it does look like this is…

brew uninstall brave-browser followed by brew cleanup -s followed by brew install brave-browser. Still an issue.

Next test: find . -maxdepth 3 -iname "*Brave*" 2>/dev/null -type d shows a number of folders which, when I look at them with ls -l, have the wrong (old) group. User is still correct. I changed the ownership: find . -maxdepth 3 -iname "*Brave*" 2>/dev/null -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I{} sud…

find . -maxdepth 3 -iname "*Brave*" 2>/dev/null -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I{} rm -rf "{}" Doing this worked… (but I forgot to backup my bookmarks… d’oh) So what file or files in one of the following folders was causing the issue? Any ideas? ./Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware ./Li…

Interesting. Unfortunately now I have no way of checking this. Thanks for your reply anyway. Feel free to close down this thread.

[image] thetomahawk: no way of checking this. Could try to launch from terminal as I list in the workaround and see if things work for you. If so, at least would narrow down whether it’s really that issue or something else happening. Beyond that, did want to try to have @Mattches swing by ye…

Well having deleted everything and effectively starting from a fresh install, the issue is no longer present. If it happens again I’ll try running from the command line with the command line option. :+1:t2:

MacOS passwords not saving following AD account reset

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Saoiray August 7, 2024, 2:58pm 6

@thetomahawk while you had other things going on, it may just be related to the ongoing issue being worked on. Please check Aggregate Topic: Lost Passwords in July 2024 update

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