How to Recover Username and Password from Opera’s Wand File

If Opera is your Web Browser of choice than you must have used its inbuilt Password Manager that stores username and password entered in a web site. Whenever you visit that website again you only have to press Ctrl + Enter and the username and password is automatically entered.

These combinations of usernames and passwords are stored in an encrypted file named wand.dat. This file can be found under Opera directory. But is happens most of the time that we tend to forget our passwords. To retrieve the username and password from this file we can use a third part command line app called wandec.

You have to open this application in the command prompt. Here is how you can use it.

Suppose you want to retrieve username and password of a specific website, lets say, Facebook, then you have to use it like this

wandec – f “Path to wand.dat” –s facebook

I have used two switches with this command. The –f switch tells wandec the path to the wand.dat file and the –s switch searches wand.dat file for a string ‘facebook’. if -f is not used %APPDATA%OperaOperawand.dat will be opened and if -s is not used all sites will be displayed.

Download wandec from here.

How to Recover Username and Password from Opera’s Wand File

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