Solved Passwords
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Something just happened with the Saved Passwords where they all have been erased and cannot Save anything new.
I went to Settings>Privacy and scrolled down to where the box is checked to save Passwords. Under that it says "No saved passwords found.
I can go to a webpage and enter the credentials, Vivaldi box pops up asking to save and I hit the Yes button. When I check back to see if Vivaldi saved the password, it didn't.
What's going on?
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@flaken Do you mean you need help in how to use the GNOME f/m?
If yes, then gee, that's going a bit off-topic, but as a one off i could fire up one of my GNOME VMs & copy a screenshot for you. However, not trying to be rude, but basic things like this really should be on your urgent To Do Learning list IMO...
Alternatively, & maybe much simpler, going back to your terminal...
Close V, then in terminal enter
mv '/home/XXXX/.config/vivaldi/Default/Login Data' '/home/XXXX/.config/vivaldi/Default/Login Data_DODGY'then relaunch V. All passwords will be lost, but unless there's other damage, all new passwords should successfully save & display.
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Something just happened
How, why, when? Just during normal browsing? After a startup of V? After an upgrade of V? After a crash of V? After importing a V profile from another pc? After anything unusual? Vivaldi Stable or Snapshot ... & version#?
Fwiw [you won't like these]:
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@guigirl
OK, what happened was that my cable modem was acting strange. When I went to unplug it, I accidentally unplugged the computer. Reconnected the computer power cable and left the computer off while I unplugged the modem then plugged it back in to reset the modem which takes awhile.Powered up the computer which worked fine. When I started V, it asked for my password to start, which I entered and went to my home page which is email. The boxes that normally would have the credentials filled in were missing. That is when I checked the settings and found all the saved credentials were gone.
Oddly enough, after I registered with this forum and posted my question, I turned everything off and restarted the computer. Same as before where all passwords were not there. Tested with several webpages where even when V would ask if I wanted to save the password and clicked "Yes", I would check to see if V had saved it. It didn't. The strange thing was coming back to this forum, the credentials were saved and auto-filled. Thinking that perhaps it worked now, I tried again with other webpages and still no saving of passwords.
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@flaken OK, an unexpected powerdown is analogous to a crash in some ways. From your info i suspect that the non-clean closure of V caused damage to some of your profile's files. The symptom you described of pre-existing passwords correctly autofilling, yet being unable to save new passwords, nor to see any passwords in Settings, is exactly what i've experienced several times, unfortunately, over the years. My initial questions list some of the other ways such corruption can occur.
Disclaimer: If you use Sync, ignore my posts ... i do not use Sync, have never trusted it, & someone else will need to help you.
That said, sorry to say, unless you have a recent backup from which you can restore the files listed in my links, then you're going to need to follow "my" linked procedure.
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Thank you for your reply, guigirl.
Could I also delete V and then reinstall?
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@flaken It would make no difference. The fault is with a corrupted login data file, and uninstalling/reinstalling will not touch that - unless you care to lose all your user data, in which case a total wipe and a clean install would replace that one defective file.
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So much for that then!
I'm a noob with terminal and tried entering the
/home/XXXX/.config/vivaldi/Default to which it comes back as/home/XXXX/.config/vivaldi/Default: Is a directory
How do I get into that directory?
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@flaken Oh no, whilst you can do it in terminal, you don't have to. Pls tell me, what is your Linux distro & desktop environment?
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Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
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@flaken GNOME, KDE, Xfce, MATE, Budgie, Deepin, etc.
Anyway, if your Ubuntu is standard, it will use GNOME, so your graphical file manager in your applications overview is iirc
Files[or maybe it's called Thunar?].I use KDE, whose f/m is Dolphin, & this is similar to what you're looking for:
If you use V Stable not Snapshot, just adjust your path accordingly as you browse in your f/m.
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OK, completely lost now. How do I get to that?
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@flaken Do you mean you need help in how to use the GNOME f/m?
If yes, then gee, that's going a bit off-topic, but as a one off i could fire up one of my GNOME VMs & copy a screenshot for you. However, not trying to be rude, but basic things like this really should be on your urgent To Do Learning list IMO...
Alternatively, & maybe much simpler, going back to your terminal...
Close V, then in terminal enter
mv '/home/XXXX/.config/vivaldi/Default/Login Data' '/home/XXXX/.config/vivaldi/Default/Login Data_DODGY'then relaunch V. All passwords will be lost, but unless there's other damage, all new passwords should successfully save & display.
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I have absolutely no problems with all of you laughing at my ignorance of the inner workings of Ubuntu. If you want something even better, I've been using Ubuntu since 2007 as my only OS. Or something even funnier, I got my degree in computers back in 1984, but never worked in the field.
Ubuntu just simply works for me. I very seldom use terminal and have never have had the need to use a file manager of any sort.
I just tried using your suggestion and off to see if it worked.
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Oh, believe me, I'm chuckling heartily. Others should enjoy the chuckle, too.
As I said, I tried your suggestion and checked in Settings to see if it worked. It appears that it did as there is now passwords back in that I can view if needed. Now the fun begins as I attempt to get all the passwords back.
Thank you very much for the help everyone has given me!
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