Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android?

• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’ve run into this issue with obsidian, but for whatever reason I haven’t had any issues with keepassdx.

  When opening an existing keepass vault, on the left there’s an “Open From” pullout menu. You should be able to select your nextcloud from there. Then find your keepass file and it’ll just work.

  I don’t know why, but obsidian doesn’t have the same file picker. There’s no “open from” menu. So you just have to drill into the filesystem, find the folder nextcloud is using, and choose your notes vault you’ve sync’ed in there. And for whatever reason, that seems to be the method that breaks Two-Way Sync.

  source
• ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I see where you’re coming from. I also really wanted that in my early days of android and nextcloud. Turns out, nowadays you don’t really need that for most use cases, and definitely not for KeePass syncing. Nextcloud app for android exposes all the files via content framework and KeePassDX can sync two ways via that. Other apps like Keepass2Android even have direct nextcloud support via WebDAV, though these days I prefer KeePassDX a little bit more for unrelated reasons.

  I recommend you try either KeePassDX or Keepass2Android and see for yourself.

  Also, most file managers support CF and will show you your nextcloud files as if they were real files on the device, even without “real” two way sync, and most other apps will be able to save & open files directly from nextcloud.

  source

  • versionc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m currently using KeePassDX and I’ve set up the Nextcloud server and downloaded the Android app. I’ll give it another shot. Can you explain more how you’ve set this up for yourself? What does CF mean, and what file manager do you recommend?

    Thanks!

    source

    • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CF = content framework, android somehow decided that users shall not see and interact with “real” files and instead, have apps like nextcloud actnlike content providers and expose a file-like API …whatever, it is what it is, but in the end it works.

      I’m currently using Material Files, but even android’s default file manager, bundled with the OS, shows Nextcloud in the left sidebar (your mileage may vary on this one, as each phone vendor tens to customize it a bit).

      As for my setup, there’s really not much to it: I selfhost nextcloud, have KeePassDX and the Nextcloud app, and when you setup KeePassDX, select “Open existing vault” and in the sidebar you should be able to select Nextcloud and pick files from there.

      source

      • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Note: For Material files, and most file managers really, nextcloud might not show up by default (“security” or something), but you can “add external storage” and give it permissions.

        source

        • -> View More Comments