Warn user if a password generation policy is deleted because it is inconsistent
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#879 Warn user if a password generation policy is deleted because it is inconsistent
Per https://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/bugs/1494/ and in particular https://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/bugs/1494/#d834, "when PasswordSafe read a database with an inconsistent password policy, it removed it" without any warnin or error message.
Please have Password Safe display a message box telling the user that it has detected an inconsistency and has deleted one or more policies (or any other data, for that matter). In the ideal world such inconsistencies would not happen, but... If I am told about the problem when Password Safe detects it - rather than finding out much later that all my policies have vanished - then I'm much more likely to be able to:
- Recover the password policies from a backup (either auto-generated incremental backup, or my own independent backups)
- Determine the sequence of events that lead to the problem, and thus provide a detailed bug report to allow the problem to be fixed.
Actually it should display a messagebox if it detects an inconsistency even if it does not make any change to the data. Any sort of inconsistency implies the risk of data loss, either previously (creating the inconsistency) or in the future. The sooner the user knows about the problem, the sooner the data can be recovered, and the more likely a useful bug report can be submitted.