I am switching my hard drive and doing a PC factory reset and I wanted to get my passwords that are stored in my Brave Browser

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@Alex12,
We can, but I believe it’s safer to carry over the entire contents of the folder. However, I do think the User data folder may be incorrect – my apologies. Can you try and do the same thing except for this time, inside the User data folder, you’ll find you browsing profile folder.

If you have more than one profile, you may want to grab those as well – but if you only have one profile, you’ll want to copy the Default folder (which is the default profile data path created by the browser on install).
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So there will always be a Default folder, then any subsequent profiles you’ve created will be named Profile 1, Profile 2 etc, inside the User Data folder.

So to summarize:

  1. In the safe copy you have of your User data folder, go in and find the Default folder:
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  2. Copy this folder, then return to your new Brave installation
  3. Ensure all instances of Brave are closed, then delete the Default folder here
  4. Paste the Default folder you copied here.
  5. Launch the browser

Let me know if any of the above is unclear and/or if it works. I just performed this exact set of steps on my end to make sure it worked and that no data was lost first – everything transferred over without a hitch :slight_smile: