I have been using passwordsafe for some time and up to this point it has been
great. I keep a copy on two different computers and can add entries on either
one. Before I had password history turned on this usually only found a couple
differences - usually passwords that I updated on one system but not the
other. The number was small enough I could easily go through manually and
delete the older "duplicate". But I turned on history because I sometimes need
the older ones. Now all the entries don't match and going through them all is
a long process. Is there a way to automatically use the entry that was updated
most recently or ignore the history field if that's the only change? There are
some advanced options for merge/sync but I didn't find any documentation of
the details.
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Currently, there is no method to do what you wish.
However, instead of Merging, you could compare both databases and, using the
Advanced field selection criteria, exclude the password history (or include
everything and then decide based on the differences).
Within the Compare results dialog, you can edit the entry in the current
database (or view if it is read-only) and view the entry in the other
database. You can also copy from the other database to the current database
directly, again if not read-only - .
The Compare report has a list of the differences found (missing entries or
differences in entries in both databases).
David
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I decided to just not have history but ran into a few issues in trying to go
back to none. On the main options selection you can only supply a minimum of 1
history to keep for existing histories - There does not appear to be a way to
apply "none" to existing entries. Most of my entries had not been changed
since I selected keeping history so they didn't have any (visible) history. I
just selected none on the master options and tried a merge. For some reason
the program sees a difference in history for almost all my entries even though
I go into entries that have supposed history differences and find no history
for the entry in either database. Apparently there is a nonvisible difference
in history. I have tried this several times and double checked this. I am
willing to accept the limitations of the program but this looks like a bug.
Perhaps I can work around this by ignoring history field in advanced merge
options but I tried a few things there and didn't see how to do it.
At this point it seems I am reduced to exporting the databases and importing
them to get "clean" databases. This seems easier than trying to manually sort
through the entries and figure out what is what. I am certianly open to other
things but what a pain... I hope someone can tell me I missed something
somewhere...
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Please raise a Feature Request to allow and extra option to delete all saved password history in existing entries in the "Manage password history of current entries" section of the Options Password History tab. Of course, once implemented, you will have to do this for both databases (and probably save them) before you do a merge
There is no way to ignore Password History with the "Advanced Merge" options as I indicated earlier. Advanced filed selection options for Merge only allow you to limit the entries to merge based on whether a small number of character fields (Group, Title, User name, Notes and URL) do or do not contain a particular string.
You may want to open a Bug Report relating to the issue of PWS thinking that Password History is different during Merge. If you can provide 2 test databases that fail to merge correctly due to this, then it will definitely help matters.
David
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How do you clean up a database that's already been peppered with duplicates due to Password Safe not considering the Password History being different doesn't make the entry a new entry. I now have hundreds of duplicates. How can I remove them without going one-by-one?
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I have been using passwordsafe for some time and up to this point it has been
great. I keep a copy on two different computers and can add entries on either
one. Before I had password history turned on this usually only found a couple
differences - usually passwords that I updated on one system but not the
other. The number was small enough I could easily go through manually and
delete the older "duplicate". But I turned on history because I sometimes need
the older ones. Now all the entries don't match and going through them all is
a long process. Is there a way to automatically use the entry that was updated
most recently or ignore the history field if that's the only change? There are
some advanced options for merge/sync but I didn't find any documentation of
the details.
Currently, there is no method to do what you wish.
However, instead of Merging, you could compare both databases and, using the
Advanced field selection criteria, exclude the password history (or include
everything and then decide based on the differences).
Within the Compare results dialog, you can edit the entry in the current
database (or view if it is read-only) and view the entry in the other
database. You can also copy from the other database to the current database
directly, again if not read-only - .
The Compare report has a list of the differences found (missing entries or
differences in entries in both databases).
David
I decided to just not have history but ran into a few issues in trying to go
back to none. On the main options selection you can only supply a minimum of 1
history to keep for existing histories - There does not appear to be a way to
apply "none" to existing entries. Most of my entries had not been changed
since I selected keeping history so they didn't have any (visible) history. I
just selected none on the master options and tried a merge. For some reason
the program sees a difference in history for almost all my entries even though
I go into entries that have supposed history differences and find no history
for the entry in either database. Apparently there is a nonvisible difference
in history. I have tried this several times and double checked this. I am
willing to accept the limitations of the program but this looks like a bug.
Perhaps I can work around this by ignoring history field in advanced merge
options but I tried a few things there and didn't see how to do it.
At this point it seems I am reduced to exporting the databases and importing
them to get "clean" databases. This seems easier than trying to manually sort
through the entries and figure out what is what. I am certianly open to other
things but what a pain... I hope someone can tell me I missed something
somewhere...
A few points:
Please raise a Feature Request to allow and extra option to delete all saved password history in existing entries in the "Manage password history of current entries" section of the Options Password History tab. Of course, once implemented, you will have to do this for both databases (and probably save them) before you do a merge
There is no way to ignore Password History with the "Advanced Merge" options as I indicated earlier. Advanced filed selection options for Merge only allow you to limit the entries to merge based on whether a small number of character fields (Group, Title, User name, Notes and URL) do or do not contain a particular string.
You may want to open a Bug Report relating to the issue of PWS thinking that Password History is different during Merge. If you can provide 2 test databases that fail to merge correctly due to this, then it will definitely help matters.
David
How do you clean up a database that's already been peppered with duplicates due to Password Safe not considering the Password History being different doesn't make the entry a new entry. I now have hundreds of duplicates. How can I remove them without going one-by-one?