Job done!Īll my Handy Safe Pro data, happily exported/imported and synced to Android 4.2 on the Galaxy Nexus.
Jelly Bean) smartphone, enter your email address and password and your data will then be in full two-way sync to the cloud and to your Windows desktop.
With your data now in SafeWallet, it's trivial to install the (free) Android client on any modern (e.g. Once imported though, your entire Handy Safe Pro 'vault' of data will exist in SafeWallet for Windows (and thence to an encrypted store on SBSH's servers - don't worry, they can't read it at their end):
Though it would have been nice if SafeWallet had told us which items were affected, for manual checking later. Just 'continue', it seems that these are due to overlong or malformed entries - I only encountered two errors in my 500 item database, so this probably isn't a showstopper. As SafeWallet imports all your Handy Safe Pro items (which takes a while, allow a good five minutes), note that you may see a few error dialogs like this one: The import process is actually a two stage process, but rest assured that it's worth going through since SBSH SafeWallet does know a lot about how Handy Safe Pro structures its data and thus your information will end up in the right place without any extra fiddling needed.Īuto-deleting the wallet file is a nice touch, to save you forgetting to do this manually and thus leaving confidential information lying around in plain text format on your PC. After all, if an external app could read Handy Safe's encrypted data store directly (even with a password) then Handy Safe's inner workings would be exposed to the world. Seeing HandySafe listed is reassuring, but it's not a direct import. With a Windows desktop too, this is the way in for Handy Safe Pro-dependent Symbian users: This is not only a full 'cloud' product, it also has a full blown client for Android. Happily, there is one competing cross-platform product which claims to import Handy Safe Pro data - SBSH SafeWallet. Which means somehow getting data out of Handy Safe Pro without requiring massive amounts of copying and pasting - some of us have hundreds, even thousands of entries to handle.
You may remember my own one-way bodge? With Epocware claiming to have halted development of the Android version of Handy Safe some time ago, it's time to look for an alternative. The OS shares a lot of similarities to Symbian too, in that it's very customisable, extensible, has a proper file system and supports full multitasking.Īlthough Handy Safe exists in the Android Play Store, it's only a half baked application and doesn't support (on modern devices) syncing to Handy Safe Desktop at all.
In fact, it's almost worth buying again from there anyway (it's only £1.50), so that you have a valid activation code for your particular Symbian device, just in case Epocware's shop disappears as well? Moving to AndroidĪndroid is, of course, the dominant smartphone OS these days, with as high a market share as Symbian had in its heyday. Even if it should disappear from the Nokia Store, there's always the Epocware shop, should you need to re-download or re-buy for a replacement device, etc. It goes without saying that if you're planning on staying with Symbian until you drop then you'll have no issues in terms of Handy Safe Pro - with no major firmware changes planned by Nokia, the current versions of the application will carry on working happily. Still, this being AAS, I have to admit that it's a valid option, at least! Staying with Symbian does have the advantage of familiarity and inertia, though the smartphone world moves on and you can expect some online services and applications to become more remote. Given how critical this personal database of super-secret information is to most users, the possible lack of a future for the product is a little worrying, which is why it's good to keep one's options open. In addition to the abandonment of development of the Mac version of Handy Safe Desktop and lack of official support for the Nokia E6 (though it can be sideloaded - ahem!), Epocware has publicly said that "all developments for Handy Safe (for all platforms) have been temporary stopped".