This didn’t work. When the terminal launched the browser, the passwords were still empty, nothing to export.
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There are no passwords to export, even when I ran this from the terminal. Ideas? Thanks
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My solution was to run a previous version of brave, then break its ability to autoupdate.
So wanted to pass along an update. Seems they figured out the issue and will be uplifting the fix to updates. You can see official response about it at post below:
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Mac user here, non programmer. All passwords lost in last update.
For the layman, what can I do?
@qspace at this point, I’d say give it a couple days. Update with the fix should be coming soon. Otherwise go look at my original post here where there’s a drop down titled Prior fixes and potential workarounds that explain things.
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Thank you so much, I just saw that my passwords are back and working on MacOS! Very happy about it! As I switched to Arc browser temporarily but didn’t like it, I also tried to import passwords from Brave to Firefox - didn’t work, as it was showing 0 passwords. While still some of the passwords would work in Brave.
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Mac user here. Thank you for the instructions to do a work around. I’m not all that great with computers but the instructions were easy to follow. That said, before I could do the work around I noticed that you mentioned the update and sure enough, all my passwords are back again. THANK YOU!!
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Mine are back too. What a good feeling. Thanks Brave!
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I’m marking as Solved, but if anyone here still has this issue, please respond. Otherwise it seems like should be fixed for everyone.
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Ok thanks for the reply. Awaiting update. Other thing I’ve noticed is it now will not save new passwords either. As I go through and reset passwords that I lost in the update, Brave asks if I would like to save, and I do, and it never actually saves. Password Manager remains empty. 
The update has released. Did you make sure to check to see if you have an update to your browser?
My browser is not indicating there is an update as it normally does in the top right of the window. I guess I should just redownload Brave from the link you have here? I have v1.68.128
Yeah, current version is 1.68.141. If you go to About in your browser, you should see it check for updates. Or you can just type in brave://settings/help to get to the page.
Otherwise, yeah, you can just download from https://brave.com/download/ to manually update. (don’t uninstall anything, just add on top)
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Updated and my passwords are back. Thank you!
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When I lost my Brave passwords the first time, I recovered part of them by importing an old backup. The rest I did manually from a password file for each site. When it happened months later again I repeated the succesful procedure again. When it happened a third time my humor with security paranoids was completely used up.
So I had two choices. Looking for a better browser or doing some research on my own. I started with the second.
First I have to thank Peter Beverloo for publishing all the Chrome browser command line options: https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches
Next you learn from it that there isnt one password store but a bunch of it. You can choose what is sufficient for you. If you dont do it Brave does it from time to time in your behalf. The famous German minister for econmics would tell you: “Your passwords are not gone you only can’t use them anymore.” Well, f… you, Mr. Habeck.
I tried to start Brave from the command line with:
brave-browser --password-store=gnome
I was lucky with gnome after some tries. But be warned: You can destroy a working profile to going bust with this command. Before trying these commandline options make a copy of the last brave profile.
I think it is irresponsible from brave/google developers not providing a proper documentation. This crytography by obscurity concept has f… up the last millenium. In 2024 its solely emberrassing.
Hi @Kilroi,
Chrome defaults to a specific keyring based on your desktop environment. If you change environments (e.g. go from GNOME to KDE) without letting Chrome know about it (i.e. --password-store=gnome), it’ll mess up components that use OSCrypt under the hood. Agreed that it’s frustrating — I’ll try to work on an article regarding common gotchas.
Will open a separate topic on it here, too, but just a heads-up that I put together an article here: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/29808985123085-Sensitive-data-storage
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