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KeePass: lost or intervening .ini puzzle (note: puzzle not problem)

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KeePass: lost or intervening .ini puzzle (note: puzzle not problem)

Background: I often need to use my PA KeePass in different places. Most often these days I find myself grabbing two files [1] from on-line storage rather than using my USB drive (combination of there often being no useable USB port & habit of no longer looking for one on newer terminal type PCs, I guess).

[1] so, I grab my .kdb file from the Data dir and KeePass.exe from the App\keepass dir and pop them into a local dir. note: I don't copy other files and I put them both into the same local dir. I start KeePass.exe, open my .kdb and do my stuff, setting Tools / Options / Security / Lock if I'm not hands on at all times. Changing the settings means a 3rd file, KeePass.ini gets created alongside the other two.

At some point I think I synced a KeePass.ini from on-line storage back to my home system.

This is not a problem as my .kdb is as I expect it to be and as secure as always, I was just a little puzzled by being asked about checking for new versions locally (I expect the question on remote systems because they don't have my .ini), finding my timeout had changed, etc.

Here is (I think) the Q: if there is more than 1 keepass.ini or similar in the dir structure which one does KeePassPortable.exe use and in which order ? I'm guessing the portable version wasn't expecting a KeePass.ini next to a .kdb or next to the .exe or something like that.

As I hope I have made clear this is a puzzle about which .ini file is used rather than a problem about the inherent security of passwords or anything like that.

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keepass.exe will only use the INI in the same directory that it exists in. If there is not one, it will operate in local mode. We don't support keepass.exe run directly. The portable launcher will move it back and forth to Data.

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