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Recover Opera wand passwords using OperaPassView

Sunday, May 30, 2010 3:40:32 PM

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Opera provides you an option of saving the passwords to Password Manager, so that you don’t have to type that again. After some time, you may forget the password. Unfortunately, Opera has no option to show saved passwords.

If Opera Password Manager fills password form field, you can view password using bookmarklet but Password Manager won't fill user name and/or password when

  • URL of login page changes.
  • User name and/or password form field name changes.
In such times you should use third party tool to recover the forgotten passwords.

OperaPassView is a small password recovery tool that decrypts the content of the Opera Web browser password file, wand.dat and displays the list of all Web site passwords stored in this file. You can easily select one or more passwords in the OperaPassView window, and then copy the passwords list to the clipboard or save it into text/html/csv/xml file.

If wand is protected by master password OperaPassView won't show passwords. Disable Tools > Advanced > Security > Use master password to protect saved passwords to view passwords.

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Comments

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:00:57 PM

up

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:46:13 PM

yes I use it.

el_esponjoso Sunday, May 30, 2010 5:34:05 PM

thanks

Abhinavdecodedthought Sunday, May 30, 2010 6:01:08 PM

up banana

Harish Lakshminarayanaharish-l Sunday, May 30, 2010 6:05:24 PM

this was exactly what made me use the master password feature in Opera!!! kinda fun (ahem!) to use on other unsuspecting buddies running Opera ( to find out how many of them still use their ex-s names as password! -wink- )

deadHarlequin Sunday, May 30, 2010 6:53:31 PM

there is also around a command line tool called unwand which does the same thing for anyone who doesnt want to be bothered with installations etc.

Tamil Sunday, May 30, 2010 11:00:10 PM

Originally posted by deadHarlequin:

there is also around a command line tool called unwand which does the same thing for anyone who doesnt want to be bothered with installations etc.

No need to install OperaPassView. Download, unzip and run OperaPassView.exe

Angelikiellinidata Monday, May 31, 2010 4:33:29 AM

thanks Tamil love

Aercyrugas Monday, May 31, 2010 4:47:33 AM

although detected by my AV i trust tamil's post
+1

Tamil Monday, May 31, 2010 4:54:02 AM

Originally posted by rugas:

although detected by my AV i trust tamil's post

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/ba102cdb52ebc49becfd70119f5df0da1269c7da23a86f364afe29813ed676a5-1275281490

KarenNerak Monday, May 31, 2010 6:46:35 AM


headbangbananaup

d4rkn1ght Monday, May 31, 2010 7:09:35 AM

up

EricJH Tuesday, June 1, 2010 1:36:55 AM

Very sweet. Thanks a lot for this tool.up yes cheers wizard coffee

Crysta T. Laceycrystalacey Thursday, June 3, 2010 3:08:02 PM

bigsmile up banana

cool spock hi

Crysta T. Laceycrystalacey Thursday, June 3, 2010 6:35:46 PM

lol headbang cheers

banana banana banana banana

cow Town cool

Superkuh Saturday, June 5, 2010 3:58:10 PM

I've been looking for something like this for years. Thanks for the link, Tamil, without you Opera would be much less usable. More thanks to Nir Sofer, the author, and Remco on freenode irc ##opera for pointing me to this page.

Crysta T. Laceycrystalacey Sunday, June 6, 2010 1:58:22 AM

Hi Tamil,

I am checking out latest 10.60 Alpha 1. So far, so good!
I wonder how many updates we will get next week! hahaha

yes cheers coffee

cow Town wine spock

Tamil Sunday, June 6, 2010 2:56:23 AM

yes quote function is not working in My Opera with Opera 10.60.

Crysta T. Laceycrystalacey Sunday, June 6, 2010 5:23:04 AM

Originally posted by Tamil:

quote function is not working in My Opera with Opera 10.60.


So far, Tamil, Mine is. This 3403 Build. Go figure.

yes up cheers

cow Town spock wine

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, June 6, 2010 5:56:39 AM

Originally posted by crystalacey:

I wonder how many updates we will get next week!


wonder if it will be like that one weekend with 5 new builds in 4 days

Tamil Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:56:51 AM

Originally posted by crystalacey:

So far, Tamil, Mine is. This 3403 Build.

Fixed in 3403 build. party

Crysta T. Laceycrystalacey Sunday, June 6, 2010 10:32:12 PM

Hi Tamil,

Originally posted by Chas4:

wonder if it will be like that one weekend with 5 new builds in 4 days


Probably not, I would settle for 2 and get things more pristine like Opera use to be.
I have to say that the last build of 10.60a1 3403 was the cleanest build and install I have had since 10.10. So far I haven't had any crashes and everything I have tried is working excellent. .... qudos Opera!

Originally posted by Tamil:

Fixed in 3403 build.


There You go Tamil!! Right on! I to was expecting it not work, but it did!

yes yes wizard party

banana banana banana banana banana

cow Town spock wine

Thomas LeJeuneTJLeJeune Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:21:20 PM

Runs in wine well too.
you can use the following to back up wand.dat file easily.

Ubuntu
file://localhost/home/Name/.opera/wand.dat

Windows 7
file://localhost/C:/Users/Name/AppData/Roaming/Opera/Opera/

Just save as a bookmark and rename Name with your name

c.walkeredukated Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:44:48 PM

Nice app. Wish I had this months ago...

Alexander Mityuninavm-xandry Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:05:31 PM

I wont this app for linux...

BBwhy-banned Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:52:11 AM

up cheers jester

offlineSODIKUL Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:20:12 AM

cheers jester up

Thomas LeJeuneTJLeJeune Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:06:31 PM

Alexander

It works perfectly in wine

tarun agarwaltarunsam26 Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:53:11 PM

[Spam comment removed.]

Alexander Mityuninavm-xandry Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:49:25 AM

Originally posted by TJLeJeune:

It works perfectly in wine


I mean native app smile

DANBUZU Saturday, June 19, 2010 12:18:02 PM

up TAMIL!

Abhinavdecodedthought Saturday, June 19, 2010 8:50:59 PM

up banana
about time I started using the wand but the problem is I will tend to forget after some time p
this will come in handy if that happens smile
ok I got a doubt... I actually clicked on "never show this again" when it prompted me to save my password now how do I save the password ????

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:35:24 PM

Originally posted by decodedthought:

I actually clicked on "never show this again" when it prompted me to save my password now how do I save the password ????

Look: "How to save password in Opera wand for a site previously chosen 'Never' option?"

Abhinavdecodedthought Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:50:59 PM

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Look: "How to save password in Opera wand for a site previously chosen 'Never' option?"


thank you ! smile

Crysta T. Laceycrystalacey Sunday, June 20, 2010 12:49:16 AM

hi Tamil,

banana banana banana banana banana banana

monkey cheers spock

cow Town cool

IKoke Sunday, June 20, 2010 2:43:35 AM

up

DANBUZU Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:32:49 PM

bigsmile

DANBUZU Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:40:07 PM

My best heroes in Opera are 2: MAD SCIENTIEST mad and TAMIL monkey

Boratoryamilov Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:48:34 AM

Usefull thing! Thank you!

Only 1 wish: when application start, it open window in _top_ of screen. Please make it start in center of screen, cos feel no comfort with windows bar in top of screen.
angel

abrarchunn Friday, June 25, 2010 7:28:40 AM

rip hi

DANBUZU Friday, June 25, 2010 1:54:58 PM

;P

Unregistered user Sunday, June 27, 2010 3:58:25 PM

Saksthi writes: Hi, i am using opera browser but i dont know how to enable wand option i tried lot of times. please reply me ..............

Tamil Monday, June 28, 2010 12:35:19 AM

CTRL+F12 > Forms > Enable Password Manager

bmhv Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:59:35 PM

somehow it doesn't show all passwords that I'm using but only a few. Can anyone help ?

Tamil Tuesday, June 29, 2010 4:18:48 PM

Are you sure?

bmhv Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:38:47 PM

yeah. I use 20 passwords and they only show 4

Tamil Saturday, July 3, 2010 2:22:47 PM

Try Opera Wand Retrieve Utility.

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