How to Recover Saved Passwords in FTP Explorer

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

FTP Explorer Password Secrets

FTP Explorer stores all your FTP login passwords at following location

[Windows Vista/7/8/10]
C:\Users\[user_name]\Appdata\Roaming\FTP Explorer\profiles.xml

[Windows XP/2003]
C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\FTP Explorer\profiles.xml

This XML file contains list of all the FTP server configurations.

Here is the sample of one of the FTP site entry,

	<ftpx_xenarmor.com>
			<Name>xenarmor.com</Name>
			<Host>xenarmor.com</Host>
			<Login>xenuser1</Login>
			<EncryptedPassword>1</EncryptedPassword>
			<Password>01000000D08C9DDF0115D1118C7A00C04FC297EB01000000(truncated)</Password>
			<LocalPath>C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads</LocalPath>
			<RemotePath></RemotePath>
			<Anonymous>0</Anonymous>
			<Default>0</Default>
			<Port>21</Port>
	</ftpx_xenarmor.com>

Here “Host”, “Login” & “Password” fields refer to FTP server, username & encrypted password respectively. EncryptedPassword field indicates if password is encrypted or stored in clear text.

FTP Explorer uses Windows DPAPI algorithms to encrypt the FTP password. You can see more technical details in the sample code below.

How to Decrypt FTP Explorer Passwords

Here is sample C++ program to decrypt the above FTP password using CryptUnprotectData function.

void DecryptPassword(char *passData, int passLen, char *password, int length)
{
	DATA_BLOB DataPassword;
	DATA_BLOB DataOutput;
	
	DataPassword.cbData = passLen;
	DataPassword.pbData = (BYTE *) passData;

	if( CryptUnprotectData(&DataPassword, NULL, 0, 0, 0, 0, &DataOutput) == FALSE )
	{
		printf("CryptUnprotectData failed with error 0x%.8x", GetLastError());
		return;
	}

	memcpy(password, DataOutput.pbData, DataOutput.cbData);
	password[DataOutput.cbData] = 0;
	
	
	printf("Decrypted Password is %s ", password);

}

How to Recover FTP Explorer Passwords Automatically

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

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