Can't unlock KeepassXC file stored on NTFS volume mounted in Ubuntu

**linuxguiri** · February 6th, 2020

In Ubuntu 19.10, I can't unlock a password-protected KeepassXC file stored on a mounted NTFS volume, but if I copy it to an ext4 volume I can open it. I can read and write other file types to the NTFS volume (e.g., odt).
The NTFS partition is mounted in fstab as:

Code:

ntfs auto,user,rw 0 0

What permissions/options need to be changed in order to unlock the password-protected KeepassXC file on NTFS from within Ubuntu?

EDIT
SOLUTION
1. Open Ubuntu Software app and find KeePassXC
2. Click on Permissions
3. Toggle "Read/write files on removable storage devices" to on

**TheFu** · February 7th, 2020

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/803 may or may not be related. It seems to be a similar issue for DBs on Samba going through gio/gvfs. They describe it as an upstream issue in the Qt File module.

If you manually mount the partition, directly, does that help?

Code:

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/somethng /mnt

I don't have any NTFS here to test. I use rsync to copy the DB to 6 different locations every night, so it massively backed up and available as needed. In my mind, there is only 1 system where changes to the DB are allowed.

Reading more there,

disabling the option Use file transactions for writing databases

Doing that scares me. A DB that doesn't support transactions is asking for corruption problems.

**linuxguiri** · February 7th, 2020

Thanks for finding that issues page, TheFu! Well, at least it's not just me.
As a workaround, I ended up using a syncing service to sync the file to the ext4 volume when in Ubuntu and to the NTFS volume when in Windows.
Thanks again!