Tom's FileZilla Password Recovery

Remembering the login information for a large number of accounts is not easy, so it might sometimes happen that you forget your passwords. If you are not using a password manager to securely store all the credentials, a password recovery solution is the next step to take. As its name implies, Tom’s FileZilla Password Recovery can retrieve account details for FTP accounts stored in the configuration files of FileZilla.

With an interface that might remind you of Office, Tom’s FileZilla Password Recovery manages to decode the data stored inside FileZilla's site manager (located in the sitemanager.xml file) or the Quick-Connect file (which contains the list of the most recently-accessed servers, located in the recentservers.xml file).

FileZilla uses Base64 encoding to protect the information inside these two files, but Tom’s FileZilla Password Recovery manages to decode them and displays a list of all the accounts and their login data within its main window, showing the host, the port number, the username and the password for each entry.

Alternatively, you can use Tom’s FileZilla Password Recovery to retrieve passwords in a user-defined file. You just have to select the location of the file, and the entire password recovery process starts all over again, following the same steps.

All the data the application retrieves can be exported as an Excel file or a CSV file. However, please note that you shouldn't keep your passwords inside unprotected files on your computer.

Tom’s FileZilla Password Recovery adopts a pretty straightforward approach to recovering passwords, looking inside the files FileZilla creates for each user profile, decoding all the data and displaying it in a table. You should not let others access your computer and use such password recovery tools. It's best to keep all the login data inside the secure vault of a password manager.