Old install doesn't recognize profile after hard-drive transfer, and corruption error if I attempt to copy-paste

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@Amariithynar

The first step, in what I referenced above:

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Recovery software. If you can figure a way to use that.

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May interest

Are passwords stored in plaintext?

I think passwords are viewable in plain text at brave://settings/passwords but are stored encrypted. Brave decrypts the passwords when you are using the browser. There is a Brave GitHub issue report relating to implementing master passwords for Brave that has some interesting information about password encryption that you might want to look at. I think this comment might help answer your question: fmarier commented May 11, 2022 How does Brave provide encryption at rest for the userdata? …

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