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> store the password vault in dropbox

No local backup? Do you rely on the network working all the time?

I do something similar on the mobile phone (the reasining is, if there's no network, there's nothing I need to login to) but I also keep a local copy on my laptop (that I sometimes operate with limited connectivity). Without any automatic syncing, one of the two copies will be stale.



Back in the day we tried to sync KeePass vaults at work and ended up with a conflict about once a week, which is way too often. Not sure if other password managers have solved this.


> No local backup? Do you rely on the network working all the time?

Normal dropbox behavior keeps a copy on every computer.


> Normal dropbox behavior

Ah, you mean by using some app or daemon. I excluded that possibility because on at least one of my laptops I'm not allowed to install anything, so for me "normal" behavior is using Dropbox as a container for files to download when needed.


Well if you do that then you get plenty of copies; just restrain your delete key finger a bit. It does risk some staleness, but only rarely.

And maybe you could write a small shell script to keep that particular file up to date?

Also the one program I've used that opens keepass files directly from dropbox servers keeps a local copy.




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