A subject close to my heart
My ex wife died suddenly at the end of December. We had been divorced for some years but were still friends, and I am the legal guardian of our children, who have come to live with me.
Sorting out her effects has been a chore, as nobody knew her social media and email account credentials, and she didn't write them down.
She had a recent Windows 10 notebook, one of those with no discrete hard drive, just flash chips soldered to the motherboard, for which nobody knows the login, so I've been unable to access that at all - due to the EFI BIOS I can't even boot from a USB Drive or Flash stick so that's essentially useless now.
If she stored her various account details on there, we'll never know.
Thankfully all the banks etc have accepted other means of identification to allow us to close accounts, recover money, sort out her work pension and so on, but we have been unable to access her email, or close her social media accounts.
It's made me realise that I need to keep a written record of things in a place where everybody who needs to can get at them.