Keepass error loading

General Discussion
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i had all my passwords on the keepass programme, i was using mint 21. i have now upgraded to 22.
i tried to access the keepass to get a password, and it couldnt load , it says error loading…
so how do i get all my passwords backout of the programme.

thanks
chaza

2

Ok, so Keybase changed their DB format a little while back … try loading up Keybase, create a new (v2) Database, then try Database → Import → V1 Database, then select your old database file …

3

i have created a new dbase, but when i goto import, it takes me tothe home screen andi get a load of ext names. i done know whatthe exten name ofthe old keepass…

4

It will be “.kdb”. Version #2 is “.kdbx”.
If you start a terminal session and do;

find . -name "*.kdb*"

It will find all the Keepass files you have …

5

all it did was tofind the new dbase, not theold one

6

So the problem would appear to be either that the old one has another non-standard file name, or it’s not there.
Older versions of Keybase (as I recall) unhelpfully allowed to you to create database files with no (or any) file extension … so it could be “anything”.
Try this, it’ll be slower;

find ~ -type f -exec file {} \; | grep -i "keepass"

This will find all files in “~” (starting in your home folder) and then for each one, run the “file” command on it to get the file type string, then filter only ones containing “keepass”, which should find v1 and v2 files, if they’re there. (this doesn’t rely on the file extension)

7

hang on, ive got it, just retypoing the pwords.

9

The suggested command finds all files in the home directory and identifies any associated with KeePass by running the file command on each, regardless of file extension. This approach is useful when older Keybase versions may have saved files with unusual or missing extensions, making typical search methods less effective.

10

Ok, so this is AI generated commentary. I’m guessing GPT rather than Gemini. Can you explain the point of adding this comment?