March 5, 2009

People on the internet are dicks.

So, in order to upgrade my computer (which is happening Friday. Wish me luck.) I have to save and backup all my shit, and so on and so forth. Makes sense.

One of the things I have to back up is my password vault.

See, back in the day, someone got one of my passwords to Mama’s sites, so I had to change it. I then realized that was my password like everywhere, so I went and changed everything then, to make it safer. But I realized I needed something to store all these passwords safely, so I looked around on the internet for awhile, and ended up with this program, called Password Vault. It worked well! I put all my passwords in there. It was nice, and it had served me for quite some time.

Fast-forward to now, I need to have a copy of this program so I can put it on my newly built compy and still access my passwords. I go and look for it, and find it over at this site. I realize it’s upgraded, and it’s talking about new features. I don’t see the old program anywhere, so I’m like “Okay, I’ll test it.” I download it, and run it. It updates my install.

Then I go to run it, and it says “Oh, input your key.” I go “No thanks, I’m using this the free way like I have been for a long while.” Then it says it needs to update my password vault. Alright. I make a backup and let it go to town. Then it says, for the trial, I can only save 10 passwords, and all the passwords over that will be lost.

What the fuck.

Well, obviously I don’t want to do this… but then it hits me. I just updated the program. I don’t have the old version anymore.

I frantically search online for the old version. Brer and Val both try to help me. We try just about everything we can think of.

Nothing.

My passwords are gone.
Unless I pay this asshole 15 dollars, of course.

I sent the man an angry e-mail, but I doubt anything will come of it. I’m never using his fucking program again, that’s for damn sure. I’m just screwed.

Bleh.

Sorry to hear. :/

Being a keeper of…many dozens of passwords and CD keys myself, I use Microsoft OneNote (which Cris will hate with a fiery passion) and password protect both pages (passwords and CD keys). On top of that, I always keep the file in one place, make it one of my most accessed files in general (keep all my ideas, since it’s a notebook, etc.) to keep it updated as well as checked on.

Comment by ManaTree — March 5, 2009 @ 3:54 am

Hmph. Personally, I just let FF do all the remembering for me. Of course, I also have a stable of about 6 common passwords that I use. They’re utter nonsense, but I remember them because I’ve used them so much. More secure accounts have unique passwords.

Back in the old days, you used to be able to open such programs with editing tools (even just a notepad-type) and skip through the code to find where the password is stored. Sadly, it sounds like the update may have already flushed those passwords. Hopefully the author isn’t a total dick and is able to help you, but I don’t hold much hope.

Makes me ponder something like this: http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productID=25098

Comment by Cris — March 6, 2009 @ 10:14 pm

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