How to Recover Saved FTP Passwords in FileZilla

In this article, you’ll learn where FileZilla stores your FTP login passwords, how they are protected, and how you can easily recover them.

FileZilla Password Secrets

FileZilla stores all the FTP login passwords in the below folder location,

[Windows Vista/7/8/10]
C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\

[Windows XP/2003] 
C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\FileZilla\

Older version of FileZilla used to store all the FTP site details in “recentservers.xml” file.

Here is the sample of one of the FTP site,

<Server>
	<Host>ftp.xenarmor.com</Host>
	<Port>21</Port>
	<Protocol>0</Protocol>
	<Type>0</Type>
	<User>xenuser</User>
	<Pass>Pass123</Pass>
	<Logontype>1</Logontype>
</Server>

Both the username & passwords are stored in clear text.

Newever version of FileZilla stores all FTP server details in file named “sitemanager.xml”.

Here is the sample of the FTP site entry,

<Server>
	<Host>ftp.xenarmor.com</Host>
	<Port>21</Port>
	<Protocol>0</Protocol>
	<Type>0</Type>
	<User>xenuser</User>
	<Pass encoding="base64">UGFzczEyMw==</Pass>
	<Logontype>1</Logontype>
</Server>

It is similar to older version, but FileZilla now encodes the password using Base64 algorithm before storing it in above file.

How to Recover FileZilla Passwords Automatically

Now you can easily recover all your forgotten FTP login passwords from “FileZilla” without any technical knowledge.

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Follow these simple steps,

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