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Originally Posted by andreas
Does this work even if sites.dat is encrypted?
I think I will have to encrypt again after moving to the new PC.
However, if I manually copy the above files, from now on I have only to copy only sites.dat to keep them in sync.
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Yes this is compatible with the Application Password Protection feature.
When restoring from the backup you'll be prompted to re-enter the original password used when the backup was created, and Application Password Protection will remain enabled.
If you copy the sites.dat between machines with Application Password protection enabled on machine #1 you need to make sure that it is also enabled on machine #2 as well, before you copy over the file, otherwise the sites.dat will be encrypted and the other other data files will not be encrypted, this will most likely lead to unexpected problems.
In fact it just dawned on me that this type of situation might explain some customers reported issues I've dealt with in the past where some data files were not encrypted even though application password protection was active.
(This is something I will need to look into for future reference)