Keepassxc: Provide a way to copy entries between open databases

Created on 19 Jan 2017 · 19Comments · Source: keepassxreboot/keepassxc

171 talks about the problem of a database getting out of sync

The usual workaround to this is to make another checkout of the database, open it, and then copy over the information.

Expected Behavior

It should be possible to copy an object (or tree) and paste it into another database

Current Behavior

Everything has to be done by hand

discussion new feature

Source

jsoref

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Most helpful comment

Drag&Drop is already possible Ctrl+C/V may be an interesting feature to implement.

phoerious on 26 Oct 2019

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All 19 comments

Does the merge feature do what you want? If not, please state in more detail how you want to copy things from one database to another.

phoerious on 19 Jan 2017

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Closing due to lack of feedback.

phoerious on 26 Feb 2017

I think it's about being able to copy/paste between databases, like KeePass (Windows / C#) can, with Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V. I tried that key combination in KeePassXC and nothing happened.

Merge functionality seems to be about reducing the number of databases, whereas generic copy/paste functionality can be used to split a database into several databases, in addition to manual merge of course.

bjornfor on 16 Apr 2017

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This wouldn't be that hard to implement since it's very similar to doing a merge on a tree or single object in the database. I think this should be reopened.

droidmonkey on 16 Apr 2017

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This should also be accomplished via drag/drop between open database tabs.

droidmonkey on 6 Oct 2018

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hi-ko on 5 May 2019

IMHO this function is desperately needed!
especially in our company i have regularly to move entries between databases because of different projects, change of access levels etc... copying every item of bigger entries one by one is really tedious and error-prone!

i know, a kind of a workaround is exporting, deleting the not needed entries and importing the remaining ones to the new database.
DISCLAIMER: i really don't recommend this (especially not on unencrypted storages) because you are storing your entire database unencrypted on your hard drive! and at the latest with forensic tools it may be easy (even after quite a while) to recover the whole unencrypted database.
--> and i don't want to use KeePass (even not for this one task) because it looks sooo ugly and does not integrate a bit into my linux-desktop. :frowning_face:

btw: an option to copy/move only the current entry or including the whole history would be the icing on the cake. :wink:

DJCrashdummy on 21 May 2019

@DJCrashdummy it sounds like you have an excellent use case for keeshare.

droidmonkey on 21 May 2019

@droidmonkey is there documentation any where on the Keeshare? I find issues for it in the issue queue and notes about it in the change log but I cannot seem to find any documentation on how to use it. Just looking for someone to point me in the right direction.

frederickjh on 22 May 2019

@droidmonkey Ah ha! I just found the pull request that started KeeShare with a link to the updated Quickstart guide, however this appears to not yet be in the Quickstart Guide on the keepassxc.org website.

frederickjh on 22 May 2019

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So for anyone looking for the KeeShare documentation for now you can find it here.

frederickjh on 22 May 2019

Whoops good point need to update that

droidmonkey on 22 May 2019

@droidmonkey Does KeeShare work with any Android apps yet? Or should I open an issue for that with the Android apps?

frederickjh on 22 May 2019

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I don't think so, but you can open the database separately from the share as well.

droidmonkey on 22 May 2019

Drag&Drop is already possible Ctrl+C/V may be an interesting feature to implement.

phoerious on 26 Oct 2019

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Drag&Drop is already possible Ctrl+C/V may be an interesting feature to implement.

Drag&Drop seems to be unstable. I think I used it in the past, but when trying now it does not work. Using Fedora 32, GNOME on wayland and keepassxc 2.6.0 I cannot drag and drop entries between two open databases.