:date: 2012-05-07 10:03

.. index:: tech, coding, linux

Keepass
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Using all the syncing and keeping password databases/files up to date leads in the long run to some inconsistencies. Latest when one of the syncing services decides that it needs to create a copy of the databases, because *something went wrong*. Leaving you with two databases and an unknown state of them.

Instead of going through the `keepassx <http://keepassx.org>`__ and finding out which is the only entry that I might have in one, but not in the other, I decided just to go on with the new database file and take care about this later.

This *later* was today. After I've already checked methods of comparing the two files (mostly by exporting them to XML and do the magic), I found `this script <http://prog.micronarrativ.org/python/keypassdbmerge.py>`__ in the `keepassx forum <http://www.keepassx.org/forum/index.php>`__, doing exactly what I was looking for.

The built-in synchronization function of `keepass <http://keepass.info>`__ (the alternative you could use) left me only with an empty file - not very funny.

In the end it turned out to be quite a hassle to a simple task like that. The script in the forum went flawless and merge everything in to a new XML-file, ready to be imported into a new database. Hope this file will last a bit longer than the other ones.

So if you're in the need to merge to databases into a new one, `there you go <http://prog.micronarrativ.org/python/keypassdbmerge.py>`__