How to handle a lost KeyStore password in Android?

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Just encountered this problem myself – luckily I was able to find the password in some Gradle’s temporary file. Just in case anyone lands here:

try looking for this file

..Project\.gradle\2.4\taskArtifacts\taskArtifacts.bin

or

.gradle/3.5/taskHistory/taskHistory.bin
.gradle/5.1.1/executionHistory/executionHistory.bin
.gradle/caches/5.1.1/executionHistory/executionHistory.bin
.gradle/5.1.1/executionHistory/executionHistory.bin
.gradle/3.5/taskHistory/taskHistory.bin
.gradle/2.10/taskArtifacts/taskArtifacts.bin

and search for

storePassword

It was there in cleartext. In general, if you do remember at least a part of your password, try searching for a file containing this substring and hopefully you will fish out something.

Wanted to throw it out here, maybe it will eventually help someone.

Edit: Added new insight from comments, just to be more visible.
Edit 2: Added some more locations reported in comments.

Thanks to Vivek Bansal, Amar Ilindra and Uzbekjon for these.

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