I thought perhaps an internet based password manager for my wife as she forever struggles to remember various logins which often leads to having to reset the password to only then never remember it next time round (or the email address tied to the account (and I'm talking about any account here, not just LastPass)) and she goes in a constant circle of resetting passwords.
I know she HAD/HAS a LastPass account as I remember her setting it up years ago.
So she tried logging in to it this weekend only for it to not work. Very unusual as with the hint linked to the account, there really is not many passwords it can be. Just a question as to whether the first letter is a capital or not really, but alas it didn't work.
So she went to create a new account - went to set the password and it wouldn't work.
Very unusual as she doesn't recall creating TWO accounts, but let's give it the benefit of the doubt.
Try a password hint, get a different hint which highlights an old password she used for everything. Try it - doesn't work. Try it without a capital - doesn't work.
She has 3 different email addresses. So this time she goes to create an account with the third email address. One she most certainly hasn't created a LastPass account with.
Doesn't work!!
The email is correct.
The Master Password she's trying ticks all the boxes. It begins with a capital letter as you see, 8 lower case letters then follow and after this 5 numbers follow - so she's ticking boxes of capitals, lower case & numbers.
What gives?
Is there a decent alternative to LastPass that 1) is free 2) does not limit you to x-number of passwords on that free account 3) is online based. Doesn't HAVE to be cross platform (laptop - mobile) compatible.
If we can get to the bottom of why LastPass isn't working for her then that'd be preferred. I can get that she's getting the wrong password for one of the emails but the second one which highlights an old password she used for everything - no, she's got that one correct and then more than that - not being able to create an account with the 3rd email is just baffling.
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So I use KeePass. Suits what I need.
I thought perhaps an internet based password manager for my wife as she forever struggles to remember various logins which often leads to having to reset the password to only then never remember it next time round (or the email address tied to the account (and I'm talking about any account here, not just LastPass)) and she goes in a constant circle of resetting passwords.
I know she HAD/HAS a LastPass account as I remember her setting it up years ago.
So she tried logging in to it this weekend only for it to not work. Very unusual as with the hint linked to the account, there really is not many passwords it can be. Just a question as to whether the first letter is a capital or not really, but alas it didn't work.
So she went to create a new account - went to set the password and it wouldn't work.
Very unusual as she doesn't recall creating TWO accounts, but let's give it the benefit of the doubt.
Try a password hint, get a different hint which highlights an old password she used for everything. Try it - doesn't work. Try it without a capital - doesn't work.
She has 3 different email addresses. So this time she goes to create an account with the third email address. One she most certainly hasn't created a LastPass account with.
Doesn't work!!
The email is correct.
The Master Password she's trying ticks all the boxes. It begins with a capital letter as you see, 8 lower case letters then follow and after this 5 numbers follow - so she's ticking boxes of capitals, lower case & numbers.
What gives?
Is there a decent alternative to LastPass that 1) is free 2) does not limit you to x-number of passwords on that free account 3) is online based. Doesn't HAVE to be cross platform (laptop - mobile) compatible.
If we can get to the bottom of why LastPass isn't working for her then that'd be preferred. I can get that she's getting the wrong password for one of the emails but the second one which highlights an old password she used for everything - no, she's got that one correct and then more than that - not being able to create an account with the 3rd email is just baffling.
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