Encryption query

[aga]

On 27/10/16 11:51, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Allan,
> 
> On Thursday 27 October 2016 11:28:47 aga wrote:
> 
>> The last couple of times I've saved my file, I've received a warning
>> about the dire consequences of possible data loss if I were to lose my
>> password.
>>
>> I've looked in KMM settings and encryption is off.  I checked ccmake and
>> couldn't see an option for encryption, but in the summary, KDE PIM
>> encryotion is shown as enabled.
>>
>> Do I have a problem?  Can I disable encryption?  How?
> 
> No, I don't think you have a problem. The storage method is kept in the data 
> file, so if you open a file that was encrypted it will be saved encrypted 
> again. And that, if you decrypt it externally and open it as an XML file. If 
> you want to permanently remove the encryption from it, you need to 'save as' 
> and select a non-encrypting method.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 

Hi Thomas

Erm.. Shouldn't the file dialogs then allow selection of encryption
method?  Neither Load nor Save does now here.

I'm on kf5, and seem to remember seeing them previously.

I hadn't, deliberately, encrypted any KMM files.

Allan