Success: Restoring Deleted 1Password Membership Vaults
Hi, just wanted to share a recent recovery experience I had with a 1Password membership vault that I accidentally deleted.
I only found old threads here stating that deleting cloud vaults is immediate and permanent (see this thread, for example). I also contacted 1Password support and they also said that my vault cannot be restored.
Luckily, I had Time Machine backups set up and here's how I restored my vault:
- Turn off Wifi/disconnect from internet to prevent 1Password from syncing
- Quit 1Password
- (Just in case), make a copy of your current 1Password cache at
~/Library/Group Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password~/Library/Group Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits - Restore the two folders above from Time Machine
- Re-open 1Password with Wifi still off and your vaults should be restored
I simply copied the recovered items into a new vault, so I can't say what would happen if you simply turned Wifi on after step 5 and if a cloud sync would remove the restored vaults again, so your mileage may vary.
I hope this helps somebody in the future.
Thanks to @Greg in this thread for pointing me in the right direction.
Ben
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Hello @benjaminbojko! 👋
You are correct that deleting a vault in your 1Password account is permanent and that there is no way to recover the deleted vault from the perspective of your 1Password account. When a user chooses to delete a vault the following warning appears:
However, if you had the 1Password 7 for Mac app already installed and you also have a full disk Time Machine backup of your Mac from prior to the deletion of the vault you may be able to recover data from the deleted vault by restoring a previous version of the 1Password app's local data and then copying the items to a new vault as you described doing in your post.
I'm happy that you were able to recover your data from the deleted vault, thank you for posting your findings. 😊
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