Today Chrome Portable has started giving a unable to decrypt passwords message when starting. However Chrome is still opening and from appearances does have my passwords.
Previously I received this message when I typed in my master password incorrectly. In those instances Chrome wouldn't start. Now however it does and does seem to have access to my passwords.
The only two changes that I've made that might have caused this are 
I made a backup copy of Chrome which would have copied the encrypted file and (b) I downgraded my home PC from Windows 7 to Windows XP for a course I'm doing.
Anyone else experience this sort of behaviour?
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Can anyone think of any potentiail fixes. Though not an show stopper this has become quite frustrating as it happens every time I open Chrome.
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If I were to guess, it's the PC downgrade. Chrome Portable's launcher uses a trick to encrypt/decrypt the password file (since it is normally locked to a given PC). I think it does it by name. If, when you switched OSes, you kept the name, that may confuse the launcher.
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I have had the same problem, however I have only run it on my home PC?
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Is there anyway I could the password?
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