{"id":59,"date":"2012-07-15T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-07-15T20:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T03:40:31","slug":"exporting-passwords-from-multiple-chrome-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/59\/exporting-passwords-from-multiple-chrome-profiles","title":{"rendered":"Exporting passwords from multiple Chrome profiles (to LastPass, ChromePass, et. al.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 1 at the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: this post applies to multiple utilities with this use case, such as\u00a0NirSoft’s ChromePass<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0LastPass<\/a>. This also applies only to Windows (though it may have similarities to workarounds for other OSes). Finally, BEWARE: this involves carefully fiddling with some folder names. There be dragons!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So, I recently decided to look at better password solutions than what the various browsers afford. I looked at KeePass<\/a>, RoboForm<\/a> and LastPass<\/a>. Your mileage may vary, but for now I’m trying out LastPass.<\/p>\n

In the course of this I stumbled on the fact that it’s surprisingly cumbersome to import passwords from Chrome (a browser I’ve come to like but which is at times cryptic). I ended up \u00a0turning to\u00a0NirSoft’s ChromePass<\/a>\u00a0in an attempt to get the passwords exported from Chrome for later import. That failed, in the same way LastPass failed: it was happy to import one set of passwords only, no matter which Chrome profile was active. Note that the Windows login is the SAME in each case, thus there are multiple Chrome profiles visible at once.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Turns out, the only profile ChromePass, LastPass and others ever refer to for password data is:
\nC:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default<\/em><\/p>\n

If you have multiple profiles you’ve used under this Windows login, you will have folders such as:
\nC:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default
\n<\/em>C:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Profile 1
\n<\/em>C:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Profile 2
\n<\/em>etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, if you’ve removed and re-added profiles you may not even HAVE a profile folder called “Default” here! (Resulting in an empty password list when you attempt to use LastPass or ChromePass to get to them.)<\/p>\n

Thus, if your current Chrome login happens to be in that profile folder, you’ll get the info from that, but if you have another Chrome login (or for other reasons no longer have the Default profile folder) you’d be outta luck – until now.<\/p>\n

What to do? It’s surprisingly simple! If what you see when importing or exporting passwords is NOT what you expect to see (that is, you are seeing the Default profile only), do this:<\/p>\n