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Recover lost password that adium still has

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:02 am
by funkwurm
I lost my gmail-password. Adium however still has it. Ofcourse the first place to go is google itself, and here I was adviced to go to this website for software to recover my password from where google talk has it stored.

As of this point, you might've gotten the catch. I don't use google talk, I use Adium. So my question now is whether I can somehow recover my password out of the file in which Adium stores these passwords?

The topic on google groups also explaines why other account-recovery methods fail. Basically I don't have a secondary e-mail account and I made the answer to my secret question impossible to know because I trust myself (too much, apparently) to remember my passwords.

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:04 am
by zac
Open Keychain Access.app in /Applications/Utilities

Locate the Adium.GTalk.<whatever> entry.

Double-click on it, and click "Show password:" It'll ask for your user password, click "Accept Once" and the GTalk password will show up.