On 3/1/2009 5:42 PM, MikeyG wrote: > Mark Hansen wrote: >> On 03/01/09 12:18, Henry wrote: >>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >>> >>>> Henry wrote: >>>> >>>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Henry wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Henry wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> In Password Manager, if you have more than one entry >>>>>>>>> for a site, can you delete all but one? There are >>>>>>>>> some sites I have 3 and 4 entries listed. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> and your question is what? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My question is can I remove the extra Password Manager entries for >>>>>>> the same site and just leave one site listed in Password Manager or >>>>>>> does Password Manager use more than one entry for some reason? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Henry >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> you can remove whatever you want to remove >>>>>> >>>>> I got this reply from Bill Davidson. "I would be afraid that they are >>>>> not really duplicates, but you can't see the difference. That is >>>>> museum artifact code you have there." >>>>> >>>>> I don't know what that means, but it makes me afraid to delete the >>>>> duplicate entries. Can I do harm? Please explain. >>>>> >>>>> Henry >>>> take a look at each entry and make sure they're not duplicates. If >>>> they're dups, then delete them. If they're not dups, and each one is >>>> different, then don't delete them. For example, you may log into >>>> hotmail.com, but the server may be live.2.com or live.3.com or something >>>> similar. >>>> >>>> As for "museum artifact code" he's talking about the password manager it >>>> self. The code is ancient and belongs in a museum. >>>> >>>> If you want to see your passwords better, then I've attached something >>>> that works great. Just save it to your hard drive, then use the >>>> Browser, and click on File, Open File, find the file, and open it from >>>> there. It will give you a list of all your passwords. A lot better >>>> than the current password manager, imo though! >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> *MOZILLA PASSWORD INFORMATION* >>>> >>>> Produced by /display_moz_passwords.html/ (by "ernie" - Andrew Poth - Ed >>>> Mullen) >>>> >>>> *Host* *User name* *Password* >>>> >>> The program you attached works great. Here are some entries (without >>> passwords) that I have. Can I delete all but one of each of them? >>> >>> https://www.comcast.com [email protected] >>> https://www.comcast.com [email protected] >>> https://www.paypal.com 1 >>> https://www.paypal.com [email protected] >>> https://www.paypal.com 1 >>> https://www.paypal.com 1 >>> https://www.paypal.com 1 >>> >>> This is where I don't know what's safe to delete. >>> >>> Thanks for you program. >>> >>> Henry >> I think there may be some confusion here. The list of passwords only holds >> passwords which you used (as some time) to log into a page which was >> protected by login/password. If you delete the saved entry for a particular >> page such that the browser no longer has a saved login/password for it, >> you will be prompted again (and will again be able to have the browser >> save it). >> >> So ... you can delete them all if you like. You will just be asked to >> re-enter >> them the next time you go to one of those protected pages. >> >> As far as the duplicates go, if two entries have the same Site, User Name >> and Password, then I believe the duplicates are not used. They shouldn't >> even be there, but I've see duplicates even on (reasonably) current versions >> of SeaMonkey. >> >> Best Regards, > > I believe that I have deleted a few duplicates that I have found in my > passwords, only to have one or two return. I just, thought no more of it > and left them alone. > > MikeyG
Duplicate entries might be a symptom of Bug 392360 (but not necessarily so). See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392360>. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
