Passwords Gone Overnight 10-3-2024

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Windows Home 10
Version 1.70.123 Chromium: 129.0.6668.89 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Brave is up to date.

When I turned on my laptop today 10-3-2024 and launched Brave, I noticed it was in dark mode and that I was logged out of gmail.

When I attempted to log back in, the password was not available in auto-fill. I checked the Password Manager in settings, and no passwords were listed.

I’ve googled around the issue. The Login Data file has the passwords all, I recognize the sites, but everything is encrypted.

My windows login has remained the same, no changes
My laptop login has remained the same, no changes
I have not made any changes on brave. Same profile as the last 3 years. It was not synced and this is just on one laptop for business.

I attempted to retrieve them via the work around of adding " --enable-features=SkipUndecryptablePasswords", however upon launching, the passwords were still not there

Any solution? Are there any other work arounds for Windows? I’ve read the thread from August and not found anything that worked for me.

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@findafix Could you generate logs with starting Brave (not as admin) from Command Prompt via "C:/Program Files/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Application/brave.exe" --args --enable-logging --v=1 . Then you can share with me the resulting chrome_debug.log from %localappdata%/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/User Data via the DM I’m just sending you (don’t forget to rename chrome_debug.log to chrome_debug.txt before sharing).

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I’m unfamiliar with this, where does the debug log save to? where am I retrieving it from? I don’t know where the local app data folder is

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  1. click on the Windows button at the bottom
  2. type “explorer”
  3. click on File Explorer
  4. paste %localappdata%/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/User Data in the address bar
  5. you’ll find a file called chrome_debug.log — rename it to chrome_debug.txt
  6. share chrome_debug.txt with me in the DM
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this is happening to me too. i restored the passwords and settings, but next day everything lost again, and logged out of everything. Very weird.

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Same here and I don’t know why.

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This happened to me today top, can i Ask for help please?

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