status
The question asked after a new machine, a restore, or a week away: is this the right file, is everything in it, and has it reached the other side lately.
$ sefy statusvault /home/you/Documents/.notes.dbsize 72.1 KBitems 5 items (4 login, 1 note)tags 3 tagsschema 4synced 2026-09-16 19:15 UTC (2 hours ago) through github (sync)plugins github, sftp| Line | What it says |
|---|---|
vault |
The file being worked on, after --vault and $SEFY_VAULT are resolved. |
size |
The sealed file on disk. |
items |
How many, and how many of each kind. |
tags |
How many distinct tags are in use. |
schema |
Version of the database inside the blob — see Versions. |
synced |
When this vault last reached a remote, through which transport, and by which command. |
plugins |
Transports installed on this machine, with any unusable one marked. |
It never prints contents
Section titled “It never prints contents”Not a title, not a value, not a tag name. A status is often asked with somebody
else in the room, or pasted into a message asking for help — it answers about
the vault, never about what is in it. The tag count is here; the tag names
are tags.
The sync time travels with the vault
Section titled “The sync time travels with the vault”synced is read from inside the sealed file, not from anything beside it.
sefy keeps nothing on disk but the vault and its transports, and a state file
next to a vault would annotate the one file that is deliberately unremarkable.
It also means the answer moves with the file. Copy a vault to another machine and it still knows when it last synced, because that is a fact about the vault rather than about the computer holding it.
A vault written before 0.8.0 says never, which is the honest answer: nothing
recorded it at the time.
An unknown kind is still counted
Section titled “An unknown kind is still counted”A vault written by a newer sefy can hold a kind this build has never heard of. It is counted and named as it was stored, rather than left out:
$ sefy statusitems 3 items (2 login, 1 passport)schema 5 (written by a newer sefy)A summary that quietly omitted part of the vault would be worse than no summary at all — see Versions.