Import Notes From Different Clipboard Manager?

sabrogden / Ditto

Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.

https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/

3.93k stars 208 forks source link

Import Notes From Different Clipboard Manager? #707

Open GitAlexToTheGreek opened 3 months ago

GitAlexToTheGreek commented 3 months ago

Hi there 🙂

Tons of copies/notes that were stored in the mobile version of a discontinued clipboard manager called "ClipTo", were wiped out by mistake, without a backup.

The desktop version is working and retains the notes, but doesn't have an official way to save/export, other than a vague notion of finding 'the database files in the AppData folder'. [The ClipTo folks are not active (possibly tragically so for the dev from Ukraine) for me to inquire directly.]

I've had Ditto installed for a little while too and would like to migrate all of my older ClipTo notes to it and have it be my default clipboard manager going forward.

➡️ Wondering if anyone here can suggest how to find the appropriate files (screenshots here) and then how to make them compatible with Ditto?

Any ideas are welcome. 🙂

Alex

GitAlexToTheGreek commented 3 months ago

Heads up @sabrogden

Wondering if you're able to view who the "and others" is referring to...

Screenshot_20240826_184846_Chrome

...because I received an email not long after making the thread, from someone posing (?) as a dev, containing a link to a virus (not affected because used an online sandbox to view the contents)...

Screenshot_20240825_224704_Gmail

Do you recognize the sender's name as an actual member of this repository?

I couldn't locate the "report spam/abuse" button for this "Issues" section so adding it here...

Wondering what you make of all this? 😬

GitAlexToTheGreek commented 3 months ago

Wondering what you make of all this? 😬

⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/136990#discussioncomment-10468569

There is a lot of discussions about this problem here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/136836

The account that posted the malicious link was probably a bot or a compromised account. GitHub has been taking measures to curb this malware campaign and this is why most of them have been deleted.

GitAlexToTheGreek commented 2 months ago

👉 I asked a chatbot how to make Ditto's exported zdb file into a json file, compatible for importing into a different clipboard manager...

It assumed the zdb file contained a SQLite database and had me install Python to do a conversion...no "tables" were detected in the zdb file though and so a zdb-to-json conversion wouldn't be an option...

I located the ditto.db file on my pc...

...which is 3gb+, and will now try to convert that into a json...am I on the right track here? Anyone?