{"id":84,"date":"2009-12-16T23:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-12-16T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:14:02","slug":"thunderbird-30-upgrade-stored-passwords-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2009\/12\/16\/thunderbird-30-upgrade-stored-passwords-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird 3.0 Upgrade: Stored Passwords &#8220;lost&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently installed the upgrade to Thunderbird 3.0 on our main PC. In my account, all was fine afterwards, but my wife had a very strange problem: All previously stored passwords seemed lost. TB 3.0 asked for the passwords of <em>all <\/em>accounts that she had, both IMAP and NNTP. When I started TB 2.0 (which I reinstalled for investigating this issue), all was fine again &#8212; <em>apart <\/em>from the password for the NNTP account, which was incorrect or missing, so I entered it again.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that now that TB 3.0 was installed, there was a file <code>signons.sqlite<\/code> in the <code>Profiles<\/code> folder in addition to the well-known <code>signons3.txt<\/code> file. I figured that the SQLite file was probably the new password store, which was migrated from the pre-3.0 password store in the TXT file. I further figured that during the migration something probably went wrong (eventually the missing\/incorrect\/corrupt NNTP password?), so I removed the SQLite file and started TB 3.0 up again. Upon starting up, it recreated the SQLite file, and this time all worked well.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you folks have a similar problem, try the approach I described here. It should not be risky at all, since the TXT will always be the &#8220;master&#8221; file when migrating from 2.0 to 3.0, so removing the SQLite file will have it re-created again upon next startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently installed the upgrade to Thunderbird 3.0 on our main PC. In my account, all was fine afterwards, but my wife had a very strange problem: All previously stored passwords seemed lost. TB 3.0 asked for the passwords of all accounts that she had, both IMAP and NNTP. 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