I have a wallet full of XLM and I can't access it because of the password. When I protected the wallet with my password I typed it out and put it in three separate places. They are all the same as far as I can see. No matter which password I copy and enter to turn off the password, it is NOT accepted. The blue OK box remains greyed out. I have tried many permutations to modify the pw unsuccessfully.

Questions. When the correct password is entered does the blue OK box automatically light up?
Is there any work around? I suspect that all of the permutations of the correct password may be off by a space or some other small character but I do know what the password was meant to be when I protected the wallet. I am using the Stargazer desk wallet for MAC. I think this wallet is very user unfriendly and would never use it again....if I can get my coins out of it!
I would be grateful for any words of wisdom. Even a method to modify what the password should have been and try more permutations to open the wallet.

There was a user on reddit some weeks ago with the same problem.
See the thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7sdca2/are_my_lumens_lost_forever/

I wrote a small script to try and brute force it based on a generated list of passwords. https://github.com/lenondupe/recover/

You can generate the list of passwords you want to try with this tool: https://github.com/Broham/PassGen for instance. Store them in passwords.txt

To run the tool itself you need to install NodeJS. Then you need to modify recover.js to put in your own data. You can find this data by scanning the QR code in Stargazer. Open a terminal window and do: node recover.js . It will attempt to decrypt the secret key with all the passwords you previously generated. If it succeeds the secret key will be printed to the console, if it doesn't there is no output.

Dupe, Thanks for your reply. I'm not computer naive but what you are suggesting would be a very difficult task for me to try to accomplish. I understand that since I have the private QR code key there is a method using "API" to restore the wallet. Do you know anthing about this and can you recommend a place where I can start learning what I need to do. I have probably tried 50 or more modifications of my password phrase without success. I do NOT believe that my password or it's entry has been the problem as I made three independent copies of the same pw and stored them in different places. I do think this is a bug.

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    alwayssaturday Yeah it requires some working in the terminal so understandable that would be difficult if you never did that.

    So the QR code indeed contains the private key, but if you used a password to protect it it will of course be encrypted with that password and you won't be able to read it. If there was a method to restore the wallet without the password, the password feature would be broken.

    I don't understand what you mean by API method though. Where have you read or heard that? Can you elaborate?

      If you have the secret key then you can manage your account using any other wallet or directly with the API or Stellar labs.

      Whatever you do, try moving one XLM first just to see if it works, then move it all to your new account.

      Torkus, Thanks for your comment. I did export my "secret key QR code" before I password protected the wallet. For whatever reasons all three of my identical password phrases won't open the wallet. I understand that I can download another copy of Stellar wallet and import my "secret key" to access the wallet. I have tried this. What I did was to download Josh Jacobs QR reader and entered my "secret" QR code. It did provide me with a long chain that it says is the key. However, Stellar on their wallet documentation states that the secret key always starts with a capital "S" and the QR reader is giving me a long chain with only one cap S. So I believe I have the key but it isn't allowing me to recreate the wallet yet because the wallet program has yet to recognize my key.

      I don't know anyone other than perhaps you or other members of this forum to ask what to do next. Do you have any suggestions?
      Thanks is advance

      I have no knowledge of how I could use either the API or Stellar Labs. Would I have to supply them my pvt key? Not comfortable with that since I have quite a bit of coins tied up at present in the wallet.

        alwayssaturday If you exported your account before protecting it you don't need to remember the password as it was not set. After scanning the QR code it should have a field containing the secret key/seed, starting with an S (e.g. SA77WYREJNMOP6NDLSM3EMTP6DJHSRLGJJK3ZLXVYOESZO3XDONLL4VB). You can enter your secret key on the web wallet and access your founds: https://www.stellar.org/account-viewer/#!/

        If the secret key/seed doesn't start with an S it means the wallet was password protected before it was exported.

          First off, forget about the wallet, you don't need it to move your money and much worse if it has bugs. If you have the secret key starting with S and 56 chars in length then you can easily manage your account using the SDK. So the first step is to verify you have the secret key, it starts with an S and it has 56 chars in length.

          Go ahead and let us know, but DON'T TELL ANYBODY YOUR SECRET and forgive me the yelling.

          bkolobara and torkus . Your good information was heart wrenching as I now understand why my "Secret code" doesn't start with an "S" and now my only alternative is to continue permutations to see where the password was corrupted. Unfortunately, my password phase has maybe 8 words with spaces in between and so far nothing has worked. One question I do have is: when the password is entered correctly does the "Confirm" button change color? Or do you have to click on the greyed out box and then it changes color?

            alwayssaturday

            If it looks similar to this, ["1","sEp6hcxE4ZRMEqjZ5p1w3w==",["DHTxxhaMlRqhziL3","SvQEpbr/5Y4G+C9NeHgaY4RCOXcrx/DPVibB2LMXQbMuG2X/Ilg+huNfNdQJc+Ct5b4pd2BPhSirsU1RVObfUCM7Fy5Hn8VF"]], then it was indeed encrypted already when you exported.

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                I have a similar problem with stargazer wallet. I have previously saved secret key of the wallet, which starts with "S" symbol. When I type this key into new wallet on another computer I`m getting an empty wallet with 0 balance. Can anyone help with this issue?

                Thank you!

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                dzham Have any idea what we can use (if we have our password) to decrypt that? I'm in the same boat

                  3 months later

                  I wish someone could help solve this problem. I have a lot of XLM in a Mac Desktop Stargazer wallet ...

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                    abarnare
                    I have same problem buddy, not a lot but some in an old stargazer wallet, have you gotten any help yet? if so what was the solution? Everytime i try to send xlm to another wallet with the qr codes it tells me the account isn't registered and i need to send 1 xlm, but it is registered and has xlm in it already!!!

                      7 months later

                      dzham
                      Gidday mate,
                      Thanks for being a good guy and helping on this topic.
                      I am in a similar vote, i have the qr code and it is encrypted however i am sure i know the password i used.
                      How do i go ahead and decrypt the code?? Keep in mind my computer knowledge is only what i call average.

                      Thanks again, Rob

                          2 months later

                          RobertDavidson Hey Rob, did you ever get a solution? I have the same issue...encrypted QR CODE and stargazer 1.7.0 is not responding to the password