T. Bug Reporter

A "portable" version of KeePass will, by default, use and change the settings stored in an installed version, if one exists on the computer being used to run the portable version. To be truly portable, you must make a configuration change to the portable version to prevent this. This has been true for at least six years and probably since day one. and I still don't understand why it hasn't been changed.

File not found it does not prompt me to make a password Both of these make it sound like KeePass thinks you want to open an existing database, not create a new one. Are you sure you selected "New"?

File not found it does not prompt me to make a password Both of these make it sound like KeePass thinks you want to open an existing database, not create a new one. Are you sure you selected "New"?

That's the name of your database (*.kdbx) file. Click Help | About KeePass to see the program version.

I believe the OP knew about this, and was asking for an expansion of the feature to allow configured profiles to be activated and run with a single click on an icon in the toolbar (without needing to open the Find dialog).

monthly export as a json file When you export to any format other than KDB or KDBX, you are stripping away KeePass's protection. If anyone can get to that export file, or recover it after it gets "deleted"★, they would need nothing fancier than Notepad to read and use all the passwords in the export. ★ Nothing ever truly gets deleted on a computer - unless you take special action to destroy the data. The most secure way to back up your database is also the simplest: just copy the KDBX file to ......

Are you using KeePass or KeePassXC? Help with KeePassXC would be better found on their Web site - not here.

@rookiestyle, @dreichl: Have either of you seen this?