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Android: Kdbx files can only opened with Google Drive-PDF-Viewer which is wrong!
Why can I open Keepass *.kdbx files only with Google Drive-PDF-Viewer?? It is no PDF. Why does the dropbox app does not let me choose a different App to open the file with? Why not use the android de...
My wife and I both have exactly the same problem. We've been using Dropbox with Keepassdroid for years. Now Dropbox tries to open with the Google drive pdf reader. We can still open the file with Keepassdroid directly, but can't get to it through the Dropbox app. Also same experience with having it work one time only after reinstalling Dropbox.
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the updates. The Dropbox mobile app can only open files with a valid extension, and one associated with an app that has stated the extension can be opened by them. This is to prevent opening a spreadsheet on a image app for instance.
If the Keepassdroid app isn't showing as an option when opening via Dropbox, then it means that the developer would need to look into this, since the Android device doesn't have the extension registered to that app, and thus neither does the Dropbox app.
After glancing at some search results and recent reviews, it appears users are experiencing the same issue with other cloud providers as well.
I hope they're able to investigate this matter for you in more detail.
It seems that this functionality has been broken by Dropbox update and this is completely unacceptable. I don't understand why the application has to prevent opening a file using "wrong" application. Now it's doing completely same thing (opening password file with PDF viewer)!
Just noticed this too. It appears that either Dropbox is not populating the usual cache location on Android or that Android has updated to not associate kdb files with Keepass. I did notice Dropbox doing an update just before this issue occurred. I tried reseting make available offline in Dropbox but that didn't work. Exporting the kdb file to the Android file system and then opening the file gave me the option to use Keepass. So the problem is Dropbox related not Keepass related. So the previous guidance to contact the app developer is bogus. I noticed just yesterday that Dropbox has added a document sign and pin protection for individual files option so looks like some big Dropbox changes.
Having the same issue with version 200.2 Keepass files open as PDF.
The workaround by toggeling offline works. There is an option to select how to open the file.
@Jay,
You explanation here seems incorrect:
"If the Keepassdroid app isn't showing as an option when opening via Dropbox, then it means that the developer would need to look into this, since the Android device doesn't have the extension registered to that app"
If this were true then the workaround using offline mode should not have worked. There shouldn't have been an option to choose to open KDB/KDBX files with Keepass regardless if we are in offline mode or online mode.
Please talk to DropBox developers to fix this.
- Why is it then offered to be opened as PDF? This answer is totally wrong. Since other apps correctly offer opening with keepass. Dropbox does not use the android internal open with functionality. Instead you choose to implement it on your own.
It is not a fault by keepass it is yours.
But hey then I better switch to nextcloud. This app instead offers me to open it with keepass droid.
Congrats Dropbox for getting me to switch.
