Upgrading Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 Lost Chrome Passwords

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Just a heads up to anyone upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and things don’t go well. I am posting this because It was not easy to find an answer online.

Today I upgraded as per stated above.

In Ubuntu chromium is now using snap. In 18.04 I was not using snap. The transition is supposed to go smoothly, but it didn’t. I was missing all of my years and years worth of bookmarks and most importantly my saved usernames/passwords because I did not have sync turned on.

In any case, in my situation I decided to copy over my old profile to the new snap profile location using this command below;

cp ~/.config/chromium/Default/Login\ Data ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/

I suspect in the end you could have cp -r the whole old profile to the new location like this.

cp -r ~/.config/chromium/Default/ ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/

I hope this helps someone somewhere

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Two things:

  1. Never save passwords in Chrome
  2. You can use the Sync feature in Chrome so when you re-insatll it all the settings sycn
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What password manager would you suggest?

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I like KeepassXC, multiple platforms and includes a TOTP / 2FA generator.

see https://keepassxc.org/

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KeePassXC is good, we use Bitwarden because we need all the more advanced sharing features.

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