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fligtar / password-exporter

a Firefox add-on that exports and imports saved passwords
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/2848
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XML parsing error. Passwords could not be imported. #6

Open PimpeOk opened 14 years ago

PimpeOk commented 14 years ago

This is all i get when i go to try and import my Passwords all 256 of them...

[JavaScript Application] XML parsing error. Passwords could not be imported.

Some basic information about this environment:

userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

Detected Firefox Version Equivalent: 3 Detected as Thunderbird: false

Components: @mozilla.org/passwordmanager;1: does not exist @mozilla.org/login-manager;1: exists @mozilla.org/login-manager/storage/legacy;1: exists nsIPasswordManager: exists nsIPasswordManagerInternal: exists nsIPassword: does not exist nsIPasswordInternal: does not exist nsILoginManager: exists nsILoginInfo: exists

Please Help.

skennedy6901 commented 14 years ago

I am having a similar problem, I exported my yesterday. upgraded my ubuntu distro from Jaunty 9.04 -> Lucid 10.04 and now I get an XML parsing error. The export file says format 1.1, but the add-on i installed today is 1.2. Is there any way I can recover these passwords without manually entering them? I should note I saved them in .csv format

PimpeOk commented 14 years ago

:) Good News i managed to get mine to work. What I ended up doing was just adding/changing the actually .extension on the file it's self to .csv so you could see it i guess it saves it as .xml but you still cant see it and it doesn't like that formant. so I manually changes it to .csv. Fingers crossed hope this works for you. If so please post on here again so that others know that this is the proper solution. Hope I helped.

skennedy6901 commented 14 years ago

That worked perfectly thank you.

PimpeOk commented 14 years ago

Great To Hear That It Worked! :)

bafibo commented 13 years ago

This is only a workaround but no solution! Please work on this issue.

nocnystroz commented 13 years ago

I have the same problem (on XP fresh installation) but changing extension doesn't work for me :( I haven't notice any special characters in my file... Please help.

Gorbush commented 13 years ago

Check that there are no leading BOM symbols - it's an XML identitier that file is UTF-8 encoded. If there are three symbols before tag - remove them.

bafibo commented 13 years ago

I try to import the exported file. I do not know what BOM symbols are. If there are any they were generated in the export process.

bafibo commented 13 years ago

@nocnystroz: "Changing the extension" would not do it because the structure of an .csv file is completely different to the structure of an .xml file. You have to export it as a .csv file. @Gorbush: I try to import an exported file. I do not know what BOM symbols are. If there are any they came to the file in the export process.