Chrome not showing Saved Passwords

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My saved passwords are not being populated on sites I visit anymore. I recently downloaded Ubuntu 16 and I seem to have lost my Passwords on my newly installed Google chrome. I checked the following.

  1. I have password sync settings turned on in chrome for all my devices (Macbook Air, Samsung Phone, Windows PC).
  2. I verified that the google account is the correct one which I have always used to save and sync passwords and other chrome settings.
  3. I checked passwords.google.com, making sure it is the correct account and all the saved passwords are gone! I had about 200+ saved passwords previously. So they don't show up on the devices and on my google cloud account anymore!
  4. I should also add that along with passwords, the saved addresses are also gone from Chrome settings. The payment methods however still seem to be there.

Of course, I never explicitly deleted or ask to delete passwords from any of my devices.

How should I recover them all in Ubuntu Google Chrome?

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4 Answers
user_1958120

I just resolved this issue using "Remove Person"

Step 1 Go to the "Other Person Setting" by clicking your photo on the Google-chrome web browser in the rightmost corner.

step 2 Remove person

step 3 Login again with your Gmail account which has Saved Password details.

step 4 Turn on Sync

This should sync all the Google Chrome settings as well as your Saved Passwords.

user_134857280

In my case, it's because of the disk access control of Chrome. Chrome saving password requires access to the disk. Some versions of Mac OS like Big Sur & Mojave will block chrome from saving passwords if the user not given chrome disk asscess.

system preference > security & privacy > privacy tab > Fill Disk Access > Unlock Settings and Add Chrome to the access list

user_57257710

It is still happening in Chrome 104.0.5112.79. As Augusto correctly noted, it's due to corruption of local Chrome's passwords database (see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1251355#c20 for more details), and chrome://flags/#clean-undecryptable-passwords was removed in recent versions (!?). Basically you're left with 3 options:

  • as mentioned in the bug discussion, close Chrome, backup (just in case), then remove Login Data db from your problematic profile:
cd [PATH_TO_CHROME_PROFILES]/Default
rm "Login Data"
rm "Login Data-journal"

Then upon re-opening the browser, passwords should populate.

  • Another option is viable if you have a backup of your profile dir, specifically of Login Data files. This was my case (experience some crazy data corruption with APFS), and while the backup was 2 weeks old (and I did not want to lose any tabs or history over that period), I recovered only these files from the backup and it helped to re-populate all (including recently saved) passwords from my Google Account.

  • Last option is to use the following tool in attempt to salvage your password data: https://github.com/mramendi/chrome_password_grabber/tree/google-fix

Hope Google can fix it soon upstream.

user_31367810
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