Target Folder

Auto Sync Config

Sync your database with a file in a specific Drive folder.

What Happens

Specify a folder of your choice to contain the Drive file to sync with. The folder may be nested in any other folder.
Or don’t specify a Target Folder; if you leave this blank, the plugin looks for a single Drive file, among all folders, with the same name as the database.
Specifying a Target Folder allows you to maintain multiple copies of the database file in other Drive folders. If not specified, the plugin will expect to find only one Drive file with the same name as the database among all of your Drive folders.
If the specified folder does not yet exist, the plugin creates it for you.
Be aware of certain Drive pitfalls.

How it Works

Click Configuration on the plugin menu to open the dialog and select the Sync Authorization tab.
Clear the Target Sync Folder text box to sync as in Google Sync 3.0; that is, with one copy of the database file, in any folder, across all your Drive folders.
Enter a Drive folder name in Target Sync Folder to sync the database to that folder.
To specify the My Drive folder, or a nested folder, enter the folder using the file separator syntax.
If a specified folder or any of its “parent” folder(s) do not exist, the plugin will create them as part of the sync operation.
If the plugin detects any ambiguity in the Target Folder (e.g., multiple folders with the same name, or multiple copies of the database file in the Target Folder), the operation is cancelled an a error message is shown.
Similarly, if no Target Folder is specified, but multiple copies of the file exist anywhere in Drive, the operation is cancelled an an error message is shown.
To use a specific Target Folder in future KeePass databases, enter the folder in the Default Target Sync Folder text box on the Options and Defaults tab of the Configuration dialog.

Target Folder Names Must be Unique

One of the odd “features” of Google Drive is that multiple objects with the same name can exist within a single folder, including the special My Drive folder. Therefore, the Target Folder you specify must have a unique “path” in your Drive account, or the plugin cannot determine which folder or file to sync with.

If you target a top-level folder named “KeePass”, but two separate folders with that name are accessible, the plugin can’t select the correct folder on its own, and an error occurs when you sync. Similarly, if the Target Folder contains two or more copies of the database file (with the same name), the plugin will refuse to sync.

Specifying Subfolders

The Target Folder may reside in any other folder, not just the My Drive top-level folder. To specify a subfolder as a Target Folder, use the common “file separator” syntax of traditional file systems. The file separator can be either ‘/’ or ‘\’. For example:

KeePass/social/clubs specifies a folder named “KeePass” at the top-level, containing a subfolder named “social”, which itself contains a subfolder named “clubs”. The Target Folder is “clubs”.
KeePass\social\clubs specifies the same Target Folder but using an alternate separator character.

Specifying My Drive

To use the top-level My Drive folder as the Target Folder, enter a single separator character in the text box, e.g., /. Note that this is not the same as leaving Target Sync Folder empty!

Special Cases

Folders names in Drive may be composed with any available character, including the characters used by the plugin to denote nested folders. For example, suppose you want to specify a folder named My/odd\folder (yes, this is allowed in Drive!). Note that this isn’t a path of nested folders, this is a folder named with separator characters. To specify this as the Target Folder, you must use the ‘\’ character to “escape” the embedded separator characters, so that the plugin does not confuse them with actual separators. In this case, the Target Folder specification would be My\/odd\\folder. The ‘\’ character must precede each embedded separator character in a folder name.