One of the first steps to take any action on the World Wide Web is to create an email. With its help, each user can send, receive letters, confirm registration in other projects and much more.
When visiting various online resources, such as social networks, online stores, forums, games, you must first log in to the site in order to get more opportunities and continue certain actions. When creating various accounts, you must specify your email address.
But it’s impossible to keep data from all accounts in your head, and the century of ink and pens is a thing of the past. And what to do, you ask? Fortunately, there are various plugins in browsers that remember all your personal data, namely login and password. In this article, we will analyze in detail one of these functions using the Opera browser as an example. The password manager in it is exactly the same as in all other web browsers.
Introduction
So, you already know that browsers have a function for storing personal data, but how it works, where all your passwords are stored, remains a mystery to many. Let us give comprehensive answers to these questions.
When entering data on any Internet resource, the browser automatically displays a small panel with two items: "Save" and "Never." When choosing the first of the proposed options, the system will remember your username and password for the current Internet resource.
After performing the above actions when you re-open this site, the personal data input fields will be highlighted in yellow. This means that the password manager has information on filling in these fields, namely the username and password. The password manager "Opera" will suspend its work if you accidentally select the item "Never".
Personal data
Suppose that you went to a certain Internet resource, created your account on it and accidentally clicked the "Never" option, which, in fact, turned off the autocomplete fields for the current site. And now you are wondering how to enable the password manager in Opera. In order to implement the plan, do the following:
- Open the "Opera" menu, select "Settings" or press Alt + P.
- In the "Advanced" section, find the "Passwords and forms."
- Open the "Passwords" sub-item.
- In the window that appears, find the sub-item "Sites for which passwords are not saved."
- Click on the cross next to the site for which you want to enable the password manager.
Done. Now, with a further transition to the Internet resource, the fields will be filled in automatically using the Opera password manager.
Storage medium
You probably wondered about the restoration of personal data after reinstalling the operating system or browser. After reading this chapter, you will no longer be afraid to lose your accounts. After all, you can easily throw them on any portable media.
So, to find out where the personal data stored using the Opera password manager is stored, do the following:
- Select the "Opera" menu, then the "Help" section, and the "About" item.
- In the window that appears, find the "Paths" section, in it - "Profile".
- Copy it and paste it into the address bar of Windows Explorer.
- In the folder that opens, locate the Login Data file.
It is this file that is responsible for the saved passwords of your browser. By deleting it, you will also delete the saved Opera password manager accounts.
How to view passwords stored inside this file? We hasten to upset you - no way. The file is encoded, so you cannot log in and rewrite passwords in advance. It is recommended that you save this file to some portable media so as not to lose access to your accounts. If you reinstall the operating system or browser, drop this document into the same folder and all previously saved personal data will be restored.
Conclusion
Where is the password manager in the opera, what is it intended for, how to recover personal data after reinstalling the browser - we gave an exhaustive answer to these questions in this article. Now you can manually enable or disable the function of saving passwords on various Internet resources without any problems. However, remember: the auto-complete fields function is very convenient and significantly saves your time, but it is not safe and does not provide protection against intruders.