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Changing Master Password

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Hi all,
TC 9.50b9 x64, Windows 10 x64 v1903.

I am using a master password, "OldPassword". I used it to store the login credentials to my Google Drive in the Cloud plugin.
Then I realized I would like to change my old master password, so I did Ctrl-F - Encrypt... - Change master password... - "OldPassword" - confirm - "NewPassword" - "NewPassword".

Now, whenever I login to my Google Drive using the Cloud plugin and TC asks me to enter my Master Password, I have to enter "OldPassword".
However, when I want to change the master password to another one, I need to enter "NewPassword".

Is this normal? Does changing the master password not change the password for encrypting the connection credentials stored using the old password?

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Roman
Mal angenommen, du drückst Strg+F, wählst die FTP-Verbindung (mit gespeichertem Passwort), klickst aber nicht auf Verbinden, sondern fällst tot um.
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Re: Changing Master Password

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No, it should use the new master password also for plugins.

Try unchecking the option to store the login credentials in the plugin and then re-enable it to save the creditials with the new password.
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Re: Changing Master Password

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Christian,
Try unchecking the option to store the login credentials in the plugin and then re-enable it to save the creditials with the new password.
Yes, this works, but I definitely consider this incorrect and dangerous behavior. By changing the master password I assume all the data that has been protected by the old (potentially compromised) master password is now protected by the new one. I would not expect that only newly entered passwords are protected and I either need to resave all old passwords or keep a history of (potentially unsafe) all my previous master passwords.

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Re: Changing Master Password

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Christian,
Will this be changed, please? Imagine changing the master password for a password manager and all the passwords would still be stored with the old password, only newly created ones would be encrypted with the new password. That cannot be the way a master password works.

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Re: Changing Master Password

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Last time I tried, it worked for me. Maybe it's also caused by your duplicate [General] section, can you check that?
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