Hi, I had to routinely change the password of my Microsoft/OneDrive account. No big deal.
But I have three Joplin'd devices (Android, iPhone, W10) and they all worked and sych'd fine until I changed that password. No surprise that they cannot sync now, as they will have an incorrect password for the cloud service.
But rummage as I might, I can't find any way on Android to tell the app to change the password. I haven't tried yet on iPhone or W10.
To be clear, it's the password for the cloud service. There is a clear dialog which offers to change the encryption password, that's not the issue.
That's just the reason why I hesitate to change my password for OneDrive. I'm looking forward for someone suggesting a feasible solution for saving a new password in Joplin clients.
It's even worse than I thought. I did, of course, keep a careful note of the Joplin encryption password (the app seems to call it by a few different names, but as far as I can see there is only one?).
So, on the Android case, I dumped out the text of three items updated since the OneDrive pwd change, then cleared the app's data and restarted it. It seemed happy, empty. I entered the encryption key. I set sync to OneDrive and it asked me to sign in to MS, all good.
But it won't sync. It says "master key is not loaded". The encryption config page shows THREE encryption keys, dated today and March, and October (when I probably started using it), with a password of "(master password)".
Why are there three keys? I don't believe I have ever given Joplin different. What is the "master key". Does Joplin mean something different by "key" and "password" or is it just different authors?
Ok, reviewing the documentation, I tried a clearout/restart again, this time setting OneDrive first, then syncing, then entering the decryption password. This seems more successful.
So now, I guess, the July encryption key was my previous botched recovery, above. Can I delete it?
Still don't know why there are two others, not one.
As a retired nerd, I'm beginning to suspect Joplin is only for trivial use, or requires substantial nerdness to manage.