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I use KeepPassXC and the Android app and just email the database to myself if I update it. Not very elegant, but I couldn't think of an easier way.

I tried using Google Drive to sync it up, but Drive is useless for this - it doesn't open the file using the right intent on Android ("file type not recognised" or something similar it says, this used to work as well) and the Drive website makes it a pain to upload an updated file even from the desktop using Chrome.



Emailing your database to yourself after every change sounds... very painful. And error-prone.

In my case, I use KeePass 2 and KeePass2Android with Google Sync and it works decently well (I would recommend you try this). I would never recommend it to non-technically-minded folks though.


Nah, doesn't hurt at all :) The db doesn't change often so isn't a big deal.

Sync looks to be for Google-domains/business only. In fact Wikipedia says it has been discontinued! I used to sync over owncloud and that worked pretty well, but the provider shut down and I haven't gotten round to setting another up.


I'm confused, would you mind clarifying? What is for Google-domains/business only and has been discontinued? I'm using the software I mentioned with a regular @gmail.com account and it syncs fine with my Google Drive. I don't have gSuite/a business account/anything else.


You weren't talking about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sync - I guess not. I think the sibling poster cleared it up though, the app I'm using is pretty old and doesn't integrate well any more in Android, there's a newer Keepass app that works with Drive natively.



KeePass2Android supports Google Drive natively. Open that app instead of opening the specific file from Drive.


Ahh! I have been using Keepass Droid, since I was using Keepass v1 files. For a long time Ubuntu LTS didn't have a good v2 client. A while back I upgraded my database to v2 on Ubuntu but stuck with KP Droid on Android. Maybe time to change app, thanks.




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