Retrieve storage password from keyring?

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#1

There are plenty of posts about restoring lost passwords-- most of it centers around launching the web ui with -print-credentials, but that didn’t work for me*.

It’s been mentioned that you can recover the password from the duplicacy.json file. Is that equivalent to the keyring in the CLI version? If so, how can I recover from that?

*to clarify not working for me: yes, I installed DebugView, but the password was not output there. Maybe it’s looking for the config file in the wrong place? In any case, if there’s a separate way to restore from the json file, I’d prefer that.

#2

What did not work? Did you run the backup or check after launching the app?

I don’t know what DebugView is.

  1. Open terminal
  2. Run the web ui with that command line argument
  3. Start backup.
  4. Watch the credentials printed in the terminal.

Alternatively you can use tools like Process Explorer and inspect environment variables of the duplicacy CLI that web ui launched. Storage credentials are passed through the environment variables.