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4 years ago Hi thanks for the bug report. One thing you could try is to put portwarden.exe in a desired folder, open a terminal at the folder, and run ./portwarden.exe --passphrase 1234 --filename backup.portwarden encrypt. I think this should work. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks for the coffee.
Hey there,
I've followed all the steps required to run Portwarden but I seem to be stuck on the part where I'm supposed to encrypt the vault. Basically, when I type in, for example, "portwarden --passphrase 1234 --filename backup.portwarden encrypt", nothing happens. If I press ENTER two times, this shows up on my screen: ? Master password: [input is hidden] [37D[37C[2K[G? Master password: [hidden][27D[27C Invalid master password. I've tried numerous times and it worked for me once, but it didn't create the backup.portwarden file. I figured that Portwarden could not create a file due to it being in the Program File x86 folder, therefore I moved it to the Documents folder but it didn't work, it kept giving me the error above.
EDIT: I managed to get it working, all I had to do was logout of BW by using bw logout then use Portwarden; Now, though, there's another problem, I cannot find the exported file anywhere. It's not in the folder where Portwarden is, it's not on the Desktop, it's not in the directory of bw.exe.
EDIT 2: I had set the folder where the portwarden.exe is located as a PATH in the system variables, hence why it didn't create a .portwarden file, which should have went into the System32. I looked into the System32 folder and I haven't found the file, probably due to the access being denied, therefore I set my cd to the folder where Portwarden is located and lo and behold, the file was created successfully. Have a coffee.