keeweb
Moving settings to another PC
Priority
Low
Version: KeeWeb
v.1.18.7
Environment
Desktop
Operating System
Windows
Range of issue
None
Database Type
None
Environment Copy/Paste
KeeWeb v1.18.7 (dfc6201, 2021-07-18)
Environment: electron v12.0.7
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) KeeWeb/1.18.7 Chrome/89.0.4389.128 Electron/12.0.7 Safari/537.36
Description
I got another laptop (old and new = Windows 11) and want to get all my (remote) password storages to the new laptop.
What I already did:
• Installed newest version on new laptop, existing in C:\Program Files\KeeWeb • Both version on new and old laptop are identical • Copied %APPDATA%\KeeWeb from old laptop to new laptop – before opening KeeWeb for the first time
But when I open KeeWeb on the new laptop I am not having my recent used storages at the start page.
On the old laptop I have 4 storages at the start page:
I got another laptop (old and new = Windows 11) and want to get all my password storages to the new laptop.
What I already did:
• Installed newest version on new laptop, existing in C:\Program Files\KeeWeb • Both version on new and old laptop are identical • Copied %APPDATA%\KeeWeb from old laptop to new laptop – before opening KeeWeb for the first time
But when I open KeeWeb on the new laptop I am not having my recent used storages at the start page.
How can I copy this section, too ? (Without the need to enter all credentials again)
Steps To Reproduce
see description
Expected Behavior
copying %APPDATA% Folder would show all recent used storages on the new laptop too
Logs
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Referenced Issues
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Attachments: Database kdbx File
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I will need to peel through the code (new to the dev team). I peeled through the files + databases; practically all the files stored in APPDATA, and I saw no mention of existing storage methods being saved in any of those files.
thats why I do not get the storage methods by copying APPDATA to new laptop.
But somewhere are those entries saved:
From the code I'm reading, I'm going to be more willing to bet that it is stored in the VM heap memory. Which is utilized with both the web and desktop version of KeeWeb.
This memory can be accessed by opening the developer console.
In that memory, I found a storage container
Within that memory, I'm finding things like gdriveOAuthToken, onedriveClientId, onedriveClientSecret, etc. And also the linked vault image /drive/root:/New.kdbx. And the methods for connecting a new drive / vault are calling that heap memory.
So as I suspected, these details aren't stored locally within the filesystem. They're stored within your browser, or electron if you're on the desktop version.
I've got to dig deeper as to where localstorage is placed.
Open files and other settings are stored in the filesystem, but they’re encrypted. You can find all of those stored pieces of data by searching SettingsStore.load, for example, the list of files.
Then for the browser, it goes to the localStorage.
On desktop, it calls Launcher.saveConfig that ends up doing this. Here’s the encryption key for this kind of configs.
