Add an option to delete backup files without confirmation

[A13BioniciOS6]

Hello,

I have activated the automatic backup function. Which is very good. But I have too many backups over 100.

I don't want to delete all of them and keep only the last 10. Unfortunately you can't select multiple times to delete them.

Can you add "select multiple"?

[keepassium]

Mmm, I think I'm missing the point of multiple selection...

If you could select 1 day, 1 week and 1 month, the app would be deleting backups older than either of these three values. But 1 day already implicitly includes the other two criteria, so what's the benefit of selecting 1 week and 1 month?

[A13BioniciOS6]

I always use "forever" as time.

Because sometimes there are moments where I make more than 30 small changes in 30 minutes or last days, weeks = more than 30 backups.

and would rather decide manually which backups I want to delete in the last hours, days, months or years.

if i now deleted it every hour, day, month or year (automatically). then all of them would be gone. you can say. a manual function for people who want to keep all backups and decide for themselves. ;)

[A13BioniciOS6]

i have been abroad for several months and forgot to take my iOS device with me. or if it should happen that i have a sudden accident and should sleep in a coma for 10 years in the hospital. :D:D

result:

i like to write down very small things (so small notes).

i would come back home and have over 100 backups at KeePassium. But where I don't have a remembrance anymore, which can be deleted now.

i just look through every backup and if there is nothing special i delete it. step by step. and then continue tomorrow with the next ones. if the automatic function would have been active all backups would have been deleted.

so i like the manual function. with multiple select would help me even more.

[keepassium]

Thank you for the details.

First of all, the backup feature is intended as a fail-safe in case the database is corrupted on save (unexpected shutdown, crash, or something else). On-device backup does not replace the proper backup — that is, having a copy of your database somewhere else.

By the way, all intermediate changes are saved in entry history (as you already know), so you probably don't need dozens of backup files to see the history of changes: it is fully available in the latest/current database file.

I am a bit reluctant to switch the database list into a mass-editing mode, as that would complicate the UI for 99% of users who don't need this. How about an option to delete backup files without confirmation? So you would just swipe left the backup file and it is gone?

[A13BioniciOS6]

I am a bit reluctant to switch the database list into a mass-editing mode, as that would complicate the UI for 99% of users who don't need this. How about an option to delete backup files without confirmation? So you would just swipe left the backup file and it is gone?

That's a good idea. No confirmation and would still be significantly faster than now.

You can add an option. I could imagine users who have very few backup files. Could accidentally delete it or are not so familiar with iOS system because they are new user.