Recently I needed the FTP password for a site I manage however I couldn’t find the PW anywhere. Fortunately the password was cached in FileZilla however from the UI, there is no way to get the password. No problem, I have a solution!
The Filezilla Site Manager window is where you set up each server connection. Here your username will be displayed, however your password will be hidden.
To retrieve your hidden passwords, open up the File menu and click Export…
Check the “Export Site Manager entries” box and click OK.
For simplicity’s sake, save the file to your Documents folder with the default FileZilla.xml name.
Now exit Filezilla and browse to your Documents folder in Windows. Open FileZilla.xml.
If you haven’t assigned a default XML reader, the file will open up in Internet Explorer. All of your user names and passwords will now be visible within the opened XML file.
- Usernames are on the User line.
- Passwords are on the Pass line.
Problem solved!
This reassures me that with my regular PC backup (including Filezilla settings) I’m confident I can always get my passwords. A simple post that is worth lots
Many thanks
@Norman – Awesome. It’s a little obscure but practical so I appreciate the comments. Austin had a nice find on this one.
Hi Steve,
in the meanwhile there has been an update that forces encoded passwords. In the respective line of code it says: yourencodedpassword
Is there a way to decode it correctly?
All the best
It’s encoded in Base64 (at least for me) so go to http://base64decode.net/ and click decode, the password should be there
Great, Jimmy! Both, Austin & you Jimmy, made it possible to recover my ‘long lost’ password. 🙂 Austin’s solution seemed incomplete without this Base64 inclusion. 🙂 I was feeling stuck at this.
Thank you so much for this! So simple and easy. You don’t know what mental stress I had to go through trying to figure out what my passwords were. Thank you again!
You are very welcome! Welcome to groovyPost!
Thanks very much – this post was exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you!
An eye-opener and a day-saver! Thank you thousand times!
Fantastic. This post was a time saver. Thank you!!
Man…. Thanks a million Bucks… I owe you a Burger!
You can’t imagine the stress I had when I taught I lost the password for the good , THANKS
Thanks Austin
Worth knowing that for the day that I can’t find a password.
Pity you can’t do that from the dashboard.
Thank you so much for this, I’ve gotten so used to just using the site manger in FileZilla that I forgot the password for my site and have been trying to remember it all day so I could give access to one of my coworkers.
This was really useful for me, thanks!
Thanks for this, but Latest version has lost above way
Nah, it’s still there. I just checked and you can still do this as of version 3.9.0.5
Oh it’s not showing now…
Now I get:
Pass encoding=”base64″ and the passwords are all unrecognizable in “in code” 🙁
Stephanie,
just decode the password with a decoding tool (e.g. https://www.base64decode.org/).
Tobias
Perfect – thank you
Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for.
Is there a way to disable the password encoding? That would be handy.
Thank you very very much!!!!!!
Thank you.
The function did not work. No servers were shown at all. The information are just stored in the quick connect history. Are there any alternatives to tackle this problem?
Happened to me aswell, Im quite new to all this and a technician asked me for my FTP account but I cant seem to know what exactly my password, host etc is. Any Luck Finding a solution?
Thanks Brother
Thank you very much bro ! i got it 🙂
That is absolutely awesome!
how if my laptop had just been format,
and filezilla must be re-installed while i don’t have any backup data?
can i still retrieve or recall the data from the server?
please help anyone
thnxxx awesomee post …
….There is no ‘pass’ information in mine……it goes straight from ‘user’ to ‘logontype.’ :C :C :C
…Any ideas? I’ve been trying to log in the *entire freakin’ day* and it just won’t accept anything I put in.
I am switching to a new computer and I was very worried on how to retreive all my FTP password. Exporting to xml worked wonders. Life Saver! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot sir.