My Passwords

[jennyjoan]

This has happened before but anyway have my passwords typed up blah blah but I need to print them off now to update etc and when I click onto them it is saying

Abiword cannot open
c:/users/jinny/desktop/passwords.abw appears to be an an invalid document

I do not want to have to type all these up again.

Can I change them to something to get them printed without my having to type them all up again.

Thanks for any advice.

[goodgoalie]

How many passwords are there? Can't you just write them in a notebook and keep it in a safe place?

[jennyjoan]

couldn't be bothered good goolie but good idea -

[goodgoalie]

I reckon it would take you ooooh all of five minutes!

[barry1010]

You can't open the document or you can't print it?

[jennyjoan]

Cant open

[Redhelen72]

A quick google finds this

t is a known issue that AbiWord sometimes makes mistakes during saving files, i.e. when they are completed from pieces from some other formats (a table pasted from doc or xls file, ...). You can investigate the problem by renaming the .abw file into .xml (or better make a copy), then try to open it in Firefox or your favorite web browser.
Abiword cannot open .abw file - Ask Ubuntu

askubuntu.com/questions/199342/abiword-cannot-open-a…

[Buenchico]

What did you end up doing last time, Jennyjoan?
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1794215.html

[ducksie]

Jenny, if you go up onto your search bar in your browser, look for Settings - once you click that, there is a section with passwords,. every password you ever created, is stored in there, to open it, you have to put in either your microsoft (outlook ) or google password, whichever one locks your computer

[barry1010]

ducksie, my browser doesn't save passwords - I consider it unsafe practice.

[ducksie]

Barry, I never set it t, I just found it by chance some time back and it's all of useless if yu didn't know your computer password

[barry1010]

Unless other people use the computer, too

[ducksie]

Not likely Barry, there's only myself with keys to this room

[jennyjoan]

Found them but do not ask me how but think they were involved with LibreWriter.

That's that solved. If I want to find them again - what do I do - do I put LibreWriter in the url.


Thanks everybody else for your input -

[Buenchico]

If you previously downloaded and installed LibreOffice then, unless you uninstalled it, LibreOffice Writer will still be on your computer.

Click the Start button on your computer, go to the list of programs and then click on the folder called 'LibreOffice 7.0'. (The number might be different to 7.0 but that doesn't matter). Then click on 'LibreOffice Writer'.

Go to File > Open. Navigate to the location of your passwords file and double click on it. That should open it for you.

I then recommend saving the file in a different format. (i.e. not the Abiword one). To do so, go to File > Save As. Click in the 'Save as type' box, to change the file type to 'Word 2007-365 (*.docx)'. Change the file name to something like 'newpasslist'. Ensure that you're saving the file to a suitable folder (such as 'Documents') and click 'Save'.

[jennyjoan]

ok - thanks chris - took a print out of your post because I do think you advised me last time to try and print passwords re Libre Writer and it worked. thanks again