I’m using Joplin on MacOS, and I wanted to remove my encryption password since I forgot password anyway… I have first disabled password and then synced with empty folder and that was mistake, didn’t know that the items that existed will be removed… I partially recovered notes but not notebooks and …

Welcome @angrybird [image] angrybird: I was wondering If i can copy my encryption password as a record from another sqllite to the fresh sqllite db in a new profile? if so then what exactly do I need to copy? You can extract the password from the database. Have a look at this post .

Thank you so much! That saved me tons of recovery work! This time got lucky wont allow this to happen every again lol But at the same time started questioning Joplin security, keeping unencrypted password in db probably not good idea even though it helped me. PS. I wrote this accidentally under the…

@angrybird You are welcome. Under the other post where you left a comment @laurent has put a link explaining what Joplin encryption is about. Copied below: https://joplinapp.org/faq/#could-there-be-a-password-to-restrict-access-to-joplin Basically, Joplin encryption is not there to protect the n…

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I agree it all make sense, I’m in the middle of transition from macos to Linux and compartmentalizing everything with automated encrypted backups so I understand better now that tools like Joplin should not be treated as your first line of defense of your data.…

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dpoulton 28 January 2020 09:53 2

Welcome @angrybird

You can extract the password from the database. Have a look at this post.

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