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🐘 🔒 KeePass-compatible browser extension for filling passwords.
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Why are local files not reloaded? #265

Closed petersohn closed 5 years ago

petersohn commented 5 years ago

I use the local file option because I use a file sharing provider that is not among the supported ones. When the database file is modified, it is not moved to Tusk even after a browser restart. Why is that? Why cannot Tusk just reload the file from the disk on startup?

subdavis commented 5 years ago

This is a good question.

It is not possible to have a "reload" button. Browser extensions have no access to the user's filesystem through any interface other than one-time file upload (which Tusk uses). If you want to easily update the database, please consider using dropbox or google drive.

Chrome does provide https://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystem which would technically allow this, but it's not available on other browsers and not standardized by W3C.

subdavis commented 5 years ago

This may be a duplicate of https://github.com/subdavis/Tusk/issues/88