Re: Help! Thunderbird lost my passwords

[Douglas McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 7/19/21 1:15 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:

On 19.07.2021 05:13, wix@mgssub.com wrote:

I installed tbird 78.12.0 (64-bit)
 and it can't find my email passwords. I have browsed signons.sqlite
 and the passwords seem to be there in the middle of the db. I have tried to install a prior version of tbird but dpkg has thwarted those efforts so far! Any other ideas suggestions would be appreciated!

Many TIA!

Dennis

If you didn't setup "Master Password" in ThunderBird, you can try "Mail PassView" utility from NirSoft. [1]
It works with WINE.
If password database files were not corrupted somehow, it will show stored accounts and passwords from TB profile.


[1] https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mailpv.html

    I recently downloaded and installed T/B after having lost the use of
    it a couple of months ago when it refused
    to recognize my password or any new one. Now it is working, and I
    hope it continues. At any rate, I did not see
    anything about a Master Password. What is it, and where is it, and
    should I need it?
    --doug