#51 PasswdSafeSync keeps asking permission for phone's secondary Drive account

[Anonymous]

To reproduce:

1. Set up phone with two Google accounts
2. Install PasswdSafeSync
3. Add a the phone's primary account's Google Drive account to sync

Expected behaviour: PasswdSafeSync syncs password files from the phone's primary Drive account, leaves phone's secondary account in peace.

Actual behaviour: PasswdSafeSync syncs password files from the phone's primary Drive account, asks for permission to access the phone's secondary Drive account every time it starts up.

[Jeff Harris]

Can you do a screenshot of the notification? I get some Android notifications for my seconday account for Google apps, but I don't see PasswdSafe Sync in them.

[Federico Heinz]

Sorry for the delay, here are the screenshots.

[Anonymous]

Hi, were you able to reproduce?

[Jeff Harris]

No. I removed Sync app permissions from both accounts and attempted to recreate the issue as described. I received the notification for the main account but nothing for the secondary account. This was on my Oreo tablet.

[Federico Heinz]

That's extremely odd: so far, this has been happening to me on two different pixel phones as well as a tablet running LineageOs.

Could the fact that the accounts are the same username on different  domains have anything to do with it?

[Jeff Harris]

I wouldn't think the same user name would affect things as I use the full account name. If you could, open the sync app's About screen and click to send the log to me. That may help.

[Anonymous]

I've just started getting this on a Google Pixel phone; I'm on Sync version 3.5.0. It asked for permission for both of my Google accounts; I granted the one, but refused the other, and continue to get exactly the message screenshotted by Federico.

Here's what I see, log-wise:
The sync for the account that I did approve is failing, showing "Last failure: [timestamp for 2 minutes ago]" on the main screen. The "About" screen's "Send logs" button just produces an empty output... :-/
* Tapping the little "rewind clock" icon in the top bar shows a log, with the following message repeated for every sync attempt:

March 6, 2018, 12:46 (0s) - <my name> (Google Drive)
Automatic, Network not connected
Error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: the name must not be empty: null

[Jeff Harris]

If you click on the error in the logs list, it should expand with a full trace. Please send me a screenshot of the error. Thanks.

[Federico Heinz]

Here's a stack trace from my phone!

[Jeff Harris]

Just an update, I've reproduced the issue. The fix, though, is a bit more complex as there was a change with how the system handles account access for syncs.

[Anonymous]

Amazing! Thank you for looking into it! I guess it happens to very few users, but when it does, it's very annoying!

[Federico Heinz]

Verified: version 3.5.1 no longer has this problem. Thank you!