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How to recover DB credentials settings stored in DBeaver

If you forgot your password, which is my case, or need to migrate database connection settings from another DBeaver installation, these steps may help.

  • Step 1: Open DBeaver Press: File > Export > DBeaver > Project.
  • Step 2: Change the name of the export file to .zip, and unzip.
  • Step 3: Copy \projects\General\.dbeaver\credentials-config.json and \projects\General\.dbeaver\data-sources.json to the root folder or any other folder you prefer.
  • Step 4: Run the command openssl aes-128-cbc -d -K babb4a9f774ab853c96c2d653dfe544a -iv 00000000000000000000000000000000 -in "credentials-config.json"

Done, it will output to the terminal as default, if you want to save in a file add > chosen_filename.json to the stp 4 command.

The data-sources.json file contains all database connection settings. To see the complete database configurations, you need to combine the data-sources.json file with the retrieved credentials file.

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