Is there any chance we can have a answer on this question - surely it's an easy 'Yes - 'do xxx)' or a simple 'No' - Is password safe no longer being supported? - Over three months seems a silly amount of time for a question like this to remain unanswered.
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PasswordSafe is being supported, but this is an Open Source project, worked on voluntarily in free time.
To the point:
For most users, creating the "My Safes" directory silently is the Right Thing, as people don't care too much where the data is stored, and an application-specific directory in the user's "personal" (CSIDL_PERSONAL) directory is the standard location for such things.
Funny thing is that I don't use this default myself, and I don't get the directory created every time I run the program. Could it be that you're not using a preference file either (pwsafe.cfg)?
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many thanks for responding - I hope you do not think I was being
rude or unappreciative - that wasn't my intention. I do understand
the constraints of Open Source projects - and I think you're doing
a fantastic job with Password Safe - it's just that I rather felt
that this rather simple question was being ignored - but that's
fixed now - and I do appreciate you taking the time to do so.
Also - sorry about the duplicate posting in the 'Features Request'
- this was not intentional and I hadn't realised it had occurred
until I got your emails today - I am not sure what happened there.
I can see the point of creating 'MySafes' when password safe is
installed - but creating it every time the application is started
is the problem I have - I don't see the point in that - if that
folder was created at install time and deleted - then recreating
it by default every time passwordsafe.exe is run seems pointless,
no? And this is what is happening - However, I understand that
opinions may differ on this and if it can be stopped, which you
tell me it can - then all I need to know is how that is achieved.
My first thought on this (long before posting on sourceforge) was
that it would be a pwsafe.cfg setting
- but I haven't been able to find any info on what that setting
might be - either via the Sourceforge passwordsafe wiki - or via
general googling.
If you can confirm - what needs to be placed in the file to 'do
the business' that would be great (I've looked in my current
pwsafe.cfg and there's no occurrence of the string 'CSIDL_PERSONAL')
Thanks Rony
best wishes
Gerard
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Subject: [passwordsafe:support-requests] #360 Stop Password Safe
from Creating 'My Safes' folder on startup
PasswordSafe is being supported, but this is an Open Source
project, worked on voluntarily in free time.
To the point:
For most users, creating the "My Safes" directory silently is
the Right Thing, as people don't care too much where the data
is stored, and an application-specific directory in the user's
"personal" (CSIDL_PERSONAL) directory is the standard location
for such things.
Funny thing is that I don't use this default myself, and I
don't get the directory created every time I run the program.
Could it be that you're not using a preference file either
(pwsafe.cfg)?
But there's no obvious setting there (at least that I can see) that will stop the creation of the dir each time the app starts - would you please let me know what the setting is that achieves this
thanks
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There isn't a setting for controlling the creation of the "My Safes" folder. Sorry if I implied otherwise.
On my PC I keep my main database in a non-standard directory (not "My Safes"), and I certainly don't see the "My Safes" folder being created upon each invocation. How exactly are you invoking PasswordSafe?
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Hi Rony - I've found the cause - since you confirmed that this doesn't happen for you, and that it's not a config file setting, I started wondering what it could be ...
I have always set 'Remember last n Databases' to 0 - my personal approach with regard any security-related software is always give away as little information as possible to any potential snooper.
If I set this to 1, the 'My Safes' folder is NOT created.
But if it is set to 0 then the 'My Safes' folder is created when one runs pwsafe.exe - specifically it happens as soon as one starts to browse for a file to open.
Can this be marked down for a fix in a future version?
PS - while you're there, I believe I've seen mention numerous times that it's ok to name the data files with extensions other than .psafe3
Can you confirm that doing so is 'officially' supported - as (again for a little extra security) I thought I might name the data file with a .jpg extension and 'hide it' in a directory full of images
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+1
Ditto.
Yes please.
What he said. :)
Is there any chance we can have a answer on this question - surely it's an easy 'Yes - 'do xxx)' or a simple 'No' - Is password safe no longer being supported? - Over three months seems a silly amount of time for a question like this to remain unanswered.
PasswordSafe is being supported, but this is an Open Source project, worked on voluntarily in free time.
To the point:
For most users, creating the "My Safes" directory silently is the Right Thing, as people don't care too much where the data is stored, and an application-specific directory in the user's "personal" (CSIDL_PERSONAL) directory is the standard location for such things.
Funny thing is that I don't use this default myself, and I don't get the directory created every time I run the program. Could it be that you're not using a preference file either (pwsafe.cfg)?
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Hi Rony,
many thanks for responding - I hope you do not think I was being
rude or unappreciative - that wasn't my intention. I do understand
the constraints of Open Source projects - and I think you're doing
a fantastic job with Password Safe - it's just that I rather felt
that this rather simple question was being ignored - but that's
fixed now - and I do appreciate you taking the time to do so.
Also - sorry about the duplicate posting in the 'Features Request'
- this was not intentional and I hadn't realised it had occurred
until I got your emails today - I am not sure what happened there.
I can see the point of creating 'MySafes' when password safe is
installed - but creating it every time the application is started
is the problem I have - I don't see the point in that - if that
folder was created at install time and deleted - then recreating
it by default every time passwordsafe.exe is run seems pointless,
no? And this is what is happening - However, I understand that
opinions may differ on this and if it can be stopped, which you
tell me it can - then all I need to know is how that is achieved.
My first thought on this (long before posting on sourceforge) was
that it would be a pwsafe.cfg setting
- but I haven't been able to find any info on what that setting
might be - either via the Sourceforge passwordsafe wiki - or via
general googling.
If you can confirm - what needs to be placed in the file to 'do
the business' that would be great (I've looked in my current
pwsafe.cfg and there's no occurrence of the string 'CSIDL_PERSONAL')
Thanks Rony
best wishes
Gerard
Subject: [passwordsafe:support-requests] #360 Stop Password Safe
from Creating 'My Safes' folder on startup
From: Rony Shapiro <ronys@users.sf.net>
To: [passwordsafe:support-requests]
<360@support-requests.passwordsafe.p.re.sf.net>
Date: 17 April 2013 19:13:36
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#360I have searched sourceforge for 'password.cfg' and it finds nothing - googling I found this: http://fossies.org/linux/misc/pwsafe-0.9BETA-src.tgz:a/pwsafe-0.9BETA/help/default/html/preferences.html
But there's no obvious setting there (at least that I can see) that will stop the creation of the dir each time the app starts - would you please let me know what the setting is that achieves this
thanks
There isn't a setting for controlling the creation of the "My Safes" folder. Sorry if I implied otherwise.
On my PC I keep my main database in a non-standard directory (not "My Safes"), and I certainly don't see the "My Safes" folder being created upon each invocation. How exactly are you invoking PasswordSafe?
Hi Rony - I've found the cause - since you confirmed that this doesn't happen for you, and that it's not a config file setting, I started wondering what it could be ...
I have always set 'Remember last n Databases' to 0 - my personal approach with regard any security-related software is always give away as little information as possible to any potential snooper.
If I set this to 1, the 'My Safes' folder is NOT created.
But if it is set to 0 then the 'My Safes' folder is created when one runs pwsafe.exe - specifically it happens as soon as one starts to browse for a file to open.
Can this be marked down for a fix in a future version?
PS - while you're there, I believe I've seen mention numerous times that it's ok to name the data files with extensions other than .psafe3
Can you confirm that doing so is 'officially' supported - as (again for a little extra security) I thought I might name the data file with a .jpg extension and 'hide it' in a directory full of images
Last edit: Gerard 2013-04-18