What did I do wrong?
I use 1password v4 to sync between my home Mac, my work Mac and my iPhone. I sync over Dropbox. My 1password keychain lives in /Apps/1password/ in my Dropbox folder. I upgraded from 1password 3 this week.
I upgraded my work Mac first, then my iPhone. Made a lot of changes to my 1password keychain. Synced fine with iPhone. The iPhone had my updated keychain.
Came home tonight, upgraded my home Mac's 1password. It appears to have taken my old, local copy of the keychain and overwritten the changes done on my work Mac. I am back to my old set of passwords, minus all of the cleanup work that I had done on my work Mac. This has synced to my phone and I assume my work Mac.
I'm hoping I discover a backup of all the keychain work on my work Mac tomorrow. If not, this means I have to go back and re-do all of that work, which includes resetting a number of login passwords, as I was auditing them all for security. This is hours of work lost.
What did I do wrong?
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A followup: There was a backup on my work Mac, and I copied it to my home Mac and did a restore, and now the Macs are both running off of the same keychain on Dropbox.
However, my iPhone, which is also set to sync via Dropbox, still has my old keychain. I can watch it sync from Dropbox, and yet nothing seems to change. Old items remain on the phone (admittedly an old phone, running iOS 6.1.3).
Furthermore, when I open the keychain package on Dropbox and look at the "iPassword Anywhere" HTML file, it, too, still contains all of the old passwords. Is that file no longer updated? Is the phone pulling its data from that file?
I swear I'm looking at the same single keychain on both Macs, on the same Dropbox account. What I don't understand is why my old data is still hanging around.
I am going to attempt a wifi sync to y phone to see if that clears up at least that problem.
Please, any clues as to what I am doing wrong would be appreciated.
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There is a syncing problem with the new version of 1P. I have the exact same configuration as you do... "/apps/1password" and am having the same problems. I reported them a few days ago. Read the Agile's feedback:
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Thanks! I thought I was losing my mind.
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I was once told there was no reason why a user would need to know which account the iOS device was syncing to hence sadly there is no easy way to tell the which account the iOS app is syncing to i.e. Dropbox account "a" etc.
True not everyone has multiple accounts with Dropbox but a lot of us do in fact have multiples. Its quite easy to get 1Password iOS connected to the wrong account. Are you sure its syncing to the correct account ? Sounds as if you have made triply sure the Macs are on the same account.
I would hope the team may at some point in the future add in the ability to tell which Dropbox account the iOS app is synced to.
1PasswordAny is still viable and should be updated. Can you tell us if you have an additional maybe older keychain stored in Dropbox. Maybe 1Password is not picking the correct on to sync to. This has been reported on a couple occasions here recently.
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As mentioned in the other thread, we recommend that you only store 1Password's data in the 1Password folder inside Dropbox,
~/Dropbox/1Password. There are restrictions to where we can place the data file due to Mac App Store's sandboxing rules. We're working on figuring out the sandboxing issues (difficult to test with no beta testing allowed at MAS).Once it is in that location, it should sync the changes across now but we found another sandboxing issue, where it does get changes but the listings don't refresh unless you lock/unlock or switch vaults. It'll be fixed in the next update, 4.0.4.
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