Description of the issue: My computer broke down about 9 months ago. Due to where I live, it took a long time to get support and different people did different things. First, I was told it could not be solved and I needed a fully new Ubuntu install. My SSD was taken out and is now an external drive, with all files on it, but won’t boot.
A new SSD was installed with a new Ubuntu version, but it was all blank and that guy had no real clue about Ubuntu. Disks weren’t accessible etc.
Other guys then looked at it, and did a reinstall of Ubuntu all over again, on the new SDD. All the files from the old SSD pertaining to the Brave installation were copied over.
All my tabs and browsing history are now back, but the passwords won’t show. I’ve copied also the Login Data files, but nothing happens: they just don’t show up.
I had passwords in there that I don’t have anywhere else, so I’m in trouble now, as after 9 months, I don’t remember any of them. At least one passwords seems irretrievable, google says it has not enough info about me to assess whether it’s me asking for the passwords (that’s the same google that has a file of all of our lives…).
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3. I hope nobody wants to go there.
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!): No passwords shown at all.
Expected result: Passwords from old SSD file to be shown Reproduces how often:
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu): v1.80.122
Additional Information: Have been looking through a lot of posts, but it seems nobody had this particular issue. I also found online that the passwords are stored encrypted, and that without the encryption key, the file is useless.
You guessed correctly: Encryption key, not available.
IMHO, all users of Brave Browser Password Manager must establish routine exporting of their password data to CSV files.
Story to tell:
First computer that I trained on, used paper tape for storage of data and program. The course instructor had been a member of the Rand team that developed the computer; the UNIVAC console:
To run a program, I had to hand write all of it. Then manually enter the program, at the UNIVAC console, that could command a machine to produce a paper tape - steps to follow IF my program worked.
Later, I graduated to using FORTRAN on an IBM 360 - program on punch cards.
Friends of mine built the first IBM punch card machine prototype used for the 360 at Poughkeepsie, NY. (PS: I was there in 1981, when Herb [a former German soldier during World War II] created the original IBM CD disc case prototype. I remember asking Herb, “What is a CD disc?”)
Back to IBM 360 . . . I had a stack of punch cards, all carefully bound and kept safe. Engineering students had a lot of those stacks.
This is my way of using history in order to hopefully stir imaginations, that there is no way around the making of time and the taking of many steps to back up important data.
