to many incorrect passwords on "password keeper" what will happen??
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- thanks for the information everyone! so all in all, if someone enters my password keeper password wrong over 10 times it only wipes my password keeper out and nothing more. I can live with that since I back my phone up once a week anyway if someone does enter in the password 10 times.
like Chrisy said, its a good idea to just "hide" password keeper so no one even knows its even on the phone which is a good idea, one of which I will do for now on03-10-10 04:53 PMLike 0 -
- jeffhRetired ModeratorThat's a good, non-trivial question. You'd use Desktop Manager to restore your backup, and Desktop Manager uses and enforces the same device password as your BlackBerry. So if you can't remember your BlackBerry password, you won't know your Desktop Manager password either. I always assumed the password was required to reload your data from a backup. If the backup itself isn't password protected, I'd be surprised.
I just searched the 9630 User Guide but didn't find the answer to the question.03-10-10 05:00 PMLike 0 - thanks for the information everyone! so all in all, if someone enters my password keeper password wrong over 10 times it only wipes my password keeper out and nothing more. I can live with that since I back my phone up once a week anyway if someone does enter in the password 10 times.
like Chrisy said, its a good idea to just "hide" password keeper so no one even knows its even on the phone which is a good idea, one of which I will do for now on03-10-10 05:01 PMLike 0 - jeffhRetired Moderator
About backing up and restoring device data
If you have installed the BlackBerry� Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your BlackBerry� device data, including messages, organizer data, fonts, saved searches, and browser bookmarks using the backup and restore tool of the BlackBerry� Desktop Manager. For more information, see the BlackBerry Desktop Software Online Help.03-10-10 05:06 PMLike 0 -
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- If your device is password protected. It was wiped because you forgot your password, if you restored your settings would it also restore your password? If so then you are back to square one. Your phone is locked, and since you can't remember your password, you are still locked out. Correct?03-10-10 05:17 PMLike 0
- jeffhRetired ModeratorThe only way I can think of that might work is to restore a previous backup. That's assuming password files are backed up. I never used password keeper because it couldn't import or export its database. I recognize the security benefit of that, but I already had a database of over 100 passwords and URLs that I didn't want to reenter. I recommend you start over with LastPass.06-19-13 09:23 PMLike 0
- Tip for all: to avoid losing your Password Keeper pw, add an entry to your contacts for an obvious NON contact: dead uncle or grandpa, first grade teacher, you get my drift.
Then, complete fields in the entry to remind you of your pw, hide it, say, in a website name. Or a madeup email address. Since I use alphanumeric combined with symbols and mix upper and lower case letters, I hide pw's in fake shortened links.
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