Import accounts: randomly loses password
AndrewBourgeois opened this issue · 8 comments
When importing accounts, some passwords won't be imported.
Out of 14 accounts in the XML file, 2 passwords weren't imported.
This can also be seen in the XML when exporting the accounts after importing them:
<password></password>
Build: 7254.
Were the passwords exported encrypted or in plain text?
Were the passwords for those accounts working, for example with automatic logins? A blank password when exporting means it couldn't be decrypted. If you copied Gw2Launcher's settings from another computer for example, the passwords would be invalid.
I added 1 account manually and exported it with passwords in plain text.
I then copypasted the <account> element it to add my other accounts and I then imported that file. 2/14 passwords weren't imported.
So the original (and only) entry was working and then 12/14 were working after import.
P.S.: the passwords only contain alphanumeric characters.
If the only one that imported was one that was exported and all the others were manually changed, I would guess it wasn't formatted correctly. The first account is shown as a sample when importing, so you can confirm if it's getting the password without actually importing it.
The basic format is:
<accounts> <account> <name>Account 1</name> <password>Password1</password> </account> <account> <name>Account 2</name> <password>Password2</password> </account> </accounts>
Try replacing the password with one of your passwords that wouldn't import and confirm it.
12/14 passwords were correctly imported. So not just the one that was exported.
And I checked the XML again: the <password> tag for the 2 accounts that didn't have a password properly imported is correct.
I fixed it by exporting again and then manually updating the password for the accounts with an empty <password></password>.
I'm adding more accounts this way. I'll let you know if it happens again when I'm done!
I had a few extra cases of missing passwords after importing accounts (with plain text passwords in the XML file).
It turns out that I can set the password for these accounts in the app but that this will not persist after a restart of the app. So the account can auto login until I restart it.
I'll try manually readding these accounts after work to see if the accounts are fine then.
Try the beta version. I found a problem that would cause it to fail to decrypt a password. It basically occurred when the checksum for the password was 0, causing it to be treated as a corrupted password. 2 identical passwords can be different when encrypted, so it could happen to any password.
This appears to fix the issue. I don't even need to reimport the accounts!
Are there release notes somewhere for the beta versions?
Thank you.